The Heart of the Milky Way

By Fulvio Melia

A visual tour of our Galaxy's center reveals astrophysical oddities seen nowhere else in the Milky Way

Astronomy Astrophysics Cosmology

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July-August 2000

Volume 88, Number 4
Page 346

DOI: 10.1511/2000.29.346

A glance at the central hub of any galaxy will tell you that there must be something very special going on deep inside. Galactic nuclei are inevitably the brightest part of a galaxy, and just about everything else in the galaxy orbits the central axis. What could be attracting all that attention?

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