Astronomers find water in the harsh environment near the Milky Way's black hole

 

Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, F. Peißker, J. Lu, F. Yusef-Zadeh, N. B. Sabha, C. Chin

Joel Kontinen

Astronomers detected dust and water surprisingly close to the Milky Way's central black hole, Sagittarius A*, offering a rare direct view of how evolved stars may behave in hostile settings. It is situated in the region around the star IRS 3 and  it is: 26,000 light-years from Earth.

This unprecedented view of the star IRS 3  shows that it is shedding an enormous amount of material, gas and dust to build a sprawling envelope around itself. Within that star's envelope, scientists detected traces of water.

Although astronomers have detected water near other stars before, this is the first time it's been found this close to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A*.

The observations, described Aug. 11 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, show that even in the harsh conditions surrounding a galaxy's central region, aging stars like IRS 3 may still be quietly seeding their surroundings with dust. That challenges the assumption that galactic centers are too extreme for this process to happen at all.

"The detection of water is especially exciting because it shows that molecular material can survive in an environment dominated by intense radiation," study co-author Macarena Garcia Marin, a researcher at the European Space Agency, said..

Genesis, the book that explains the origin of the universe says that there is water everywhere in the galaxy, so it is not difficult to find water there.  

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Shreejaya Karantha 2026 Astronomers find water in the harsh environment near the Milky Way's black hole — Space photo of the week | Live Science 21 August 

Millions of planets might form around supermassive black holes

 

Massive amounts of dust swirl around active nuclei at the centres of galaxies, and these discs could give rise to vast numbers of rocky planets, some even the size of stars. Image courtesy of NASA and M. Weiss/Chandra X-ray Center

Joel Kontinen

What does black holes done for planets? According to a recently published study, they form planets around supermassive black holes.

The active centres of galaxies might be regions of extraordinary planet formation, where millions of worlds are born.

Most galaxies in the universe, such as our own Milky Way, host a supermassive black hole at their centre. Most of the time, these black holes are quiescent, as there is no matter falling into them. But occasionally they become active and consume huge amounts of dust and gas, perhaps from a merger with another according to evolution, becoming an active galactic nucleus for millions of years.

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By Jonathan O’Callaghan 2026 Millions of planets might form around supermassive black holes | New Scientist 28 May

Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way's galactic centre

 

Image courtesy of ESA/Gaia/DPAC

Joel Kontinen

When do astronomers see a n errant star that is speeding from the centre of our galaxy? They see it now,. This did not happen years and years ago.

“Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre.

At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole, closely surrounded by a group of hundreds of stars. Slightly further out is a larger disc of stars, and further out still is an even larger star group, called the nuclear star cluster (NSC).”

Space is big and wonderful, as God made it that way, and unexpected things happen all the time, like this speeding star.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way's galactic centre | New Scientist 7 March 

A giant wave in the Milky Way may have been created by another galaxy

 Astronomers have identified patterns within the motion of stars stretching across the Milky Way, hinting at the presence of a vast wave.

Was the Milky Way created by another galaxy? That is the question that evolutionists ask.

But The Milk Way seems to be guided by intelligence, that comes not  by change but with planning that the secular science cannot do.

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all astronomers are comnvinced that it actually exists.

While illustrations normally show our galaxy as a flat disc with a bulge in the middle, its structure is much more complicated. Astronomers have mapped undulating clouds of stars and gas that create waves across small sections of the Milky Way. 

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Alex Wilkins 2024 A giant wave in the Milky Way may have been created by another galaxy | New Scientist 23 August. 

Heaviest known black hole in Milky Way uncovered

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 Joel Kontinen 

“The Milky Way galaxy’s heaviest known black hole has been discovered in a binary star system, Tel Aviv University announced on Tuesday.”

What is the nature of the black hole that was discovered by Israeli scientists ,It is called the galaxy’s heaviest known black hole, it is1,500 light-years away from Earth.  

The star, which orbits a black hole 33 times heavier than the sun’s mass..

“This is an exciting discovery of the heaviest black hole in a binary system known today in the galaxy,” said Tel Aviv University Professor Emeritus Tsevi Mazeh.

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Pesach Benson, 2024.  Heaviest known black hole in Milky Way uncovered 16 April.

The milky way is exceptional

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Joel Kontinen 

The Milky Way is exceptional. It was not formed by Darwinian processes.

 “Astronomers have known for several decades that the Milky Way is not a typical galaxy.” In a study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society says that the “Milky Way is more massive than most galaxies imbedded in cold (low velocity dispersion) “walls” similar to ours. . , Over the last 40 years, surveys of the “nearby” universe have revealed that galaxies are not arranged randomly in space. Rather, they are mostly arranged in a foam-like structure with mostly empty “voids” outlined by “filaments” and “walls” or “sheets.” “

 

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Gonzalez, Guillermo, 2023,  New Study: The Milky Way Is Exceptional.   Evolution News and Science Today 30 January

What brought the Milky Way into existence?

Image courtesy of  X-ray (NASA/CXC/cfa/E.O’Sullivan); Optical (Canada-France-Hawaii-Te​lescope/Coelum. 

Joel Kontinen 

 

What do we think about the milky way? To the ancient Greeks, it was a squint squirt  breast milk, and to the Mayan farmers it was a growing maize stalk. to Abraham, it signalled God’s care in preparing the universese,for us. -

Well. how did the universe get a beginnoing. .Evolutionists think that the big bang brought life to our galaxy.  

Some evolutionists say that soon we will even be able to pinpoint the specific events that led to the formation of our sun.  

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Lewton, Thomas. 2021.  Milky Way shakes: The cosmic collisions that made our galaxy New Scientist. 15  December. .