Milky Way's giant black hole spits out its food into space
Thursday, August 29, 2013 - 14:00
in Astronomy & Space
The colossal black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy is a messy eater. Of all the gas that falls toward the black hole, 99 percent gets spewed back out into space, new observations show, making the black hole akin to a toddler whose food ends up mostly on the floor, rather than his mouth.