Milky Way’s Violent Central Engine –“Two X-Ray Plumes Discovered Reaching Out 500 Light Years”

In images collected from 2016 to 2018 and in 2012, researchers have found two plumes of X-rays — galactic center chimneys — stretching in opposite directions from the central hub of the galaxy. Each plume originates within about 160 light-years of the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole and spans over an incredible 500 light-years.

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