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Sagittarius A, JWST

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Sagittarius A, JWST Known as  Sagittarius A, the Milky Way’s black hole is centered in this infrared from the JWST Nircam camera with Red from the 4.o5u filter, green from the 2.12u filter and blue from the 1.15u filter. Astronomers have found that the X-ray emission originates in hot gas drawn from the winds of massive young stars in the region. Data from the Chandra Xray telescope indicate that only about 1% or less of the gas within the black hole’s gravitational influence ever reaches the event horizon, losing enough heat and angular momentum to fall into the black hole, while the rest of the gas escapes in an outflow.This explains why the Milky Way’s black hole is so quiet, much fainter than might be expected in energetic X-rays. It likely holds for most supermassive black holes in galaxies in the nearby Universe. The image was very difficult to produce because the stars in the image overwhelmed the nebula. All of the stars were removed using StarX Terminator but many stars remained because StarX did not recognize them as stars because they has a black dot in the center. These were removed one by one using a content aware healing brush.

 

 

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Optics: James Webb Space Telescope(JWST)
Mount: JWST
Camera:NIRCAM(JWST Near Infrared Camera)
Filters:NIRCAM 405n-444w, 212n, 115w
Dates/Times: March 2023
Location:  Lagrange Point 2 orbit, ~1 million miles from Earth
Exposure Details: NIRCAM 1288s
Acquisition: Downloaded from the MAST archive
Processing:  Maximdl was used to stretch and align the data from the three filters and then create a color image. Red used the 405n image, green used the 212n image and blue used the 115w image. StarX Terminator was used to remove some of the stars and the remainder was done using PS 2023 Camera Raw by hand using the Healing brush and the content aware tool. The problem was that many of the stars had dark centers which the StarX did not remove. Post processing done in PS 2023 and the stars from the 115W filter image were added back.