NASA's Chandra spacecraft spots supermassive black hole erupting in the Milky Way's heart

A scene of lots of color-coded smears of gas. On the right, an inset shows a zoomed-in section of the scene.

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, scientists have discovered a new cosmic "exhaust vent" funneling hot gas away from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole that sits at the very heart of our Milky Way galaxy.