(Image credit: NASA, ESA, and Gerald Cecil (UNC-Chapel Hill); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI))The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is leaking.The Milky Ways main black hole, known as Sagittarius A * (Sgr A *), has been “dripping” or producing jet-like superheated beams for numerous thousand years. Related: 8 methods we know that black holes really do existThe composite image shows hydrogen gas as orange-colored features. In analyzing the composite image, the top of this cloud of orange gas, the black holes jet is seen clashing with the hydrogen gas before spreading upwards into “tendrils,” NASA stated in a declaration.
