New mysteries at the galactic center

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Nov 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985sci...230..652w&link_type=abstract

Science (ISSN 0036-8075), vol. 230, Nov. 8, 1985, p. 652, 653.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Black Holes (Astronomy), Galactic Nuclei, Galactic Structure, Interstellar Magnetic Fields, Milky Way Galaxy, Radio Sources (Astronomy), Filaments, Jets, Synchrotron Radiation

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The striking variety of activity which has recently been revealed to occur around the Galactic core is reviewed. The features seen to date include a large-scale magnetic field of unknown origin, a possible jet emanating from the central black hole, and a series of 'threads' - smooth, narrow lines of emission that seem to correlate with nothing else in the central region, and that resemble nothing else in the Galaxy. The large scale magnetic field, which presumably organizes the so-called Continuum Arc, is probably the result of the same kind of dynamo process that produces magnetic fields in the sun, the earth, and other planets. The nature of the apparent jet and the causes of the threads remain to be clarified.

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