Galactic Chimneys in Milky Way (IMAGE)

University of California - Los Angeles

Galactic Chimneys in Milky Way

Caption

Galactic chimneys (yellow-orange areas) are centered on the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. (This is a false-color image; white patches indicate spots where unrelated, bright X-ray sources have been removed from the image.)

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Gabriele Ponti/MPE/INAF and Mark Morris/UCLA

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