“All things Are too small To hold me I am so vast In the infinite I reach For the uncreated I have touched it It undoes me Wider than wide Everything else Is too narrow You know this well Who also live there.”
Hadewijch of Antwerp (13th century Beguine)
This Chandra image of Sgr A* and the region around it was based on almost two weeks of observing time. A theoretical model based on these deep data has been produced to help explain why this giant black hole seems to consume so little material. Scientists have also used these data to probe supernova remnants and lobes of hot gas extending away from the black hole. The image also contains several mysterious X-ray filaments.