The Milky Way’s Black Hole Is Consuming 278 Trillion Gases
About 26,000 light-years away, a strange, massive cloud is expanding and contracting under the powerful tidal forces of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our star. In just 13 years, astronomers expect this cloud, known as X7, to be torn apart by extreme weather. But now, according to a paper published …