Universe  ID: 14042

Mini-Jet Found Near Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

Our Milky Way’s central black hole has a leak! This supermassive black hole, over 4 million times more massive than our Sun, looks like it still has the remnants of a blowtorch-like jet dating back several thousand years.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope hasn’t photographed the phantom jet yet, but it has helped find circumstantial evidence that the jet is still pushing feebly into a huge hydrogen cloud.

For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble.

Music Credits:
“Never Sure of Anything” by Andrew Potterton [PRS], via Ninja Tune Production Music [PRS], and Universal Production Music
 

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Credits

Paul Morris (KBR Wyle Services, LLC): Lead Producer
Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Technical Support
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Mission:
Hubble

Keywords:
SVS >> Milky Way
SVS >> Hubble Space Telescope
SVS >> HST
NASA Science >> Universe