Last 500 years around Milky Way's supermassive black hole in amazing visualization

Using Chandra X-ray Telescope data, the last 500 years of an area about 3 light years (18 trillion miles) around the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way galaxy has been visualized.

Credit: NASA/CXC/Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Chile /C.Russell et al. / mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta (http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta)