They got all that from this image …NASA has spotted a colossal 'exhaust' vent in the middle of the Milky Way, likened to a car's exhaust system, emanating from the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's heart.
Scientists utilising NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope have unveiled that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, boasts a cosmic "exhaust vent".
This chimney-like structure is positioned perpendicularly to the plane of the Milky Way's disk, creating a "tunnel" that funnels hot gas towards the outer regions of Sgr A*.
The "exhaust vent" seems almost detached from the black hole itself, with the top of the tunnel situated approximately 700 light-years from the central area.
A closeup of the "exhaust vent" ...
They’re sooooooo *smart*. They seem to know everything there is to know about “gas”.The photos show various segments of the chimney in assorted hues based on radio wave data, with the newly found vent appearing as a vivid blue and white streak against a backdrop of darker blue.
Enhanced imagery highlights white X-ray wave ridges flowing out of the vent, which scientists believe to be streams of hot gas.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-nasa-chan ... nting.html
See … HOT GAS, not plasma. Traveling “like smoke”. Their ignorance is simply stunning."We suspected that magnetic fields are acting as the walls of the chimney and that hot gas is traveling up through them, like smoke," said Scott Mackey of the University of Chicago, who led the study. "Now we've discovered an exhaust vent near the top of the chimney."
They truly are like the blind men trying to figure out what an elephant is, folks.
But it gets worse …
"We're not sure if this energy and heat are stoked by a large amount of material being dumped onto Sgr A* at once, like a bunch of logs being dumped on a fire," said co-author Mark Morris of the University of California, Los Angeles. "Or it might come from multiple small loads being fed into the black hole similar to kindling being regularly tossed in."
The grandiosity of these blind men is astonishing.The Fermi and eROSITA bubbles are both aligned with the direction of the chimney and a second X-ray chimney that begins at the galaxy's center and points in the opposite direction. The funneling effects of the exhaust vent near the top of the chimney may keep the hot gas focused as it travels upwards, aiding in the formation of the coherent structure of the bubbles.
"The origin of the Fermi Bubbles and the eROSITA bubbles are some of the biggest mysteries faced by studies of the high energy radiation from our galaxy," said co-author Gabriele Ponti of the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics in Merate. "We've discovered a small structure that might play a large role in the creation of these gigantic bubbles."
