Look What’s Hiding – Black Hole Edition

What’s hiding at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy – the Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole, but we can’t see it. First of all, it’s a black hole so there’s not much to see. Secondly it hidden behind a dense cloud of dust, gas and stars.

This image was taken pointing right at Sagittarius A*. Strip away the stars and you get a clear view of the dust and ionized gas, mostly hydrogen.

Move the slider to reveal the clouds of dust and ionized hydrogen gas hiding the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy