Galactic Center Radio Arc

The Galactic Center Radio Arc is a long curving X-ray filament about 40 light years across located in the Galactic Center of the Milky Way galaxy (about 8 kiloparsecs). The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) also contains the Galactic central radio arc. The structure is curving towards the Galactic Center where the supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* is located.^[1]^[2]

The curving is due to the hot plasma located inside the Galactic Center Radio Arc being directed and flowing along constant and strong magnetic field lines.^[1]^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "APOD: 2023 April 3 – The Galactic Center Radio Arc". apod.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2025-05-20.
^ "Research Portal". iro.uiowa.edu. Archived from the original on 2025-04-17. Retrieved 2025-05-20.
^ Serabyn, E. (1996), Blitz, Leo; Teuben, Peter (eds.), "The Nature of the Galactic Center Arc", Unsolved Problems of the Milky Way: Proceedings of the 169th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in the Hague, the Netherlands, August 23–29, 1994, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 263–269, doi:10.1007/978-94-009-1687-6_32, ISBN 978-94-009-1687-6, retrieved 2025-05-20{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)

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[:0-1] "APOD: 2023 April 3 – The Galactic Center Radio Arc". apod.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2025-05-20.

[2] "Research Portal". iro.uiowa.edu. Archived from the original on 2025-04-17. Retrieved 2025-05-20.

[3] Serabyn, E. (1996), Blitz, Leo; Teuben, Peter (eds.), "The Nature of the Galactic Center Arc", Unsolved Problems of the Milky Way: Proceedings of the 169th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in the Hague, the Netherlands, August 23–29, 1994, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 263–269, doi:10.1007/978-94-009-1687-6_32, ISBN 978-94-009-1687-6, retrieved 2025-05-20{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)

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