"This image is remarkable", says Farhad Yusef-Zadeh of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, an expert on the filaments. "It could provide the key to cracking the code and solve this three-decade riddle."
The centre of the Milky Way is incredibly hard to photograph, not only because it's 25,000 light-years away, but also because it lies behind the constellation Sagittarius and is constantly enshrouded by clouds of gas and dust, making it invisible from Earth using optical telescopes.
But infrared, X-ray, and some radio wavelengths, like the ones MeerKAT detects, can penetrate this dust, providing a unique view of the region. The telescope's location in South Africa is also ideal, with the Milky Way passing overhead and visible for almost 12 hours each day.
Linkback:
https://tubagbohol.mikeligalig.com/index.php?topic=89680.0