Galactic chimneys in Milky Way
Gabriele Ponti/MPE/INAF and Mark Morris/UCLA
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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