Overlay of an image of the center of the Milky Way: infrared image (red) obtained by the Spitzer Space Telescope, optical image (yellow) from Hubble, and X-ray image (blue) from Chandra.
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Overlay of an image of the center of the Milky Way: infrared image (red) obtained by the Spitzer Space Telescope, optical image (yellow) from Hubble, and X-ray image (blue) from Chandra. The bright white patch on the lower right in the -ray image is the location of the Milky Way supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*.
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Image Credit: Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UMass/D. Wang et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/D.Wang et al.; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC/S.Stolovy