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Non-thermal TeV $gamma$-ray emission within a multiparsec has been observed from the center region of our Galaxy. We argue that these $gamma$-rays are the result of transient activity of the massive black hole Sgr A$^*$ that resides at the Galactic Center. Several thousand years ago, the black hole may have experienced an active phase by capturing a red giant star and forming an accretion disk, temporarily behaving like an active galactic nucleus. A powerful jet, which contains plenty of high speed protons, was launched during the process. These runaway protons interact with the dense ambient medium, producing TeV $gamma$-ray emission through the $pi^0$-decay process. We show that the total energy deposited in this way is large enough to account for observations. The diffusion length of protons is also consistent with the observed size of the TeV source.
The Galactic Center (GC) has been long known to host gamma-ray emission detected to >10 TeV. HESS data now points to two plausible origins: the supermassive black hole (perhaps with >PeV cosmic rays and neutrinos) or high-energy electrons from the pu
Recent observations of gamma-rays with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in the direction of the inner Galaxy revealed a mysterious GeV excess. Its intensity is significantly above predictions of the standard model of cosmic rays (CRs) generation
The hierarchical nature of galaxy formation suggests that a supermassive black hole binary could exist in our galactic center. We propose a new approach to constraining the possible orbital configuration of such a binary companion to the galactic cen
Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is the supermassive black hole residing at the center of the Milky Way. It has been the main target of an extensive multiwavelength campaign we carried out in April 2007. Herein, we report the detection of a bright flare from
Fermi has discovered two giant gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend nearly 10 kpc in diameter. We propose that periodic star capture processes by the galactic supermassive black hole, Sgr A*, with a capture rate $<10^{-5}$ yr$^{-1}$ and energy rele