Host: Benjamin Thompson
Welcome back to the Nature Podcast. This week, strange objects at the centre of the galaxy…
Host: Nick Howe
And rethinking how researchers measure screen time. I’m Nick Howe.
Host: Benjamin Thompson
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Host: Nick Howe
Picture our galaxy… the Milky Way… vast arms spiralling away from a glowing core. And right in the middle of that core, in the galactic centre, there lies a black hole called Sagittarius A*. The galactic centre has been the focus of decades of study, as astronomers try to work out how the black hole interacts with the matter around it. How active is it? Is it growing? Now in Nature, a team from the University of California, Los Angeles have confirmed the existence of a population of strange objects orbiting Sagittarius A*. Noah Baker called up lead author Anna Ciurlo to find out more.
Interviewer: Noah Baker
You spend a lot of time gazing into the centre of our galaxy, looking in the region of the black hole…
