(NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang; NRF/SARAO/MeerKAT) SPACE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The center of the Milky Way is a strange and wild place. There dwells our galactic nucleus - a supermassive black hole 4 million times the mass of the Sun, a beast named Sgr A*. It's probably the most extreme environment in our galaxy, dominated by Sgr A*'s gravitational and magnetic fields. It's also very hard to see into, even though it's only 25,800 light-years away: The region is shrouded by thick clouds of dust and gas that obscure some wavelengths of light. But if we use technology to tweak our vision into the invisible...