After Decades of Searching, Scientists Make a Major Breakthrough in the Mystery Surrounding Our Galaxy’s Black Hole

Every large galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole at its center, each one emitting powerful winds of hot gas from its event horizon. Our galaxy should be no exception. Yet for the last 50 or so years, astronomers have been searching for winds coming from the black hole at the Milky Way’s center, and in all that time, they found nothing. Not even a gentle breeze.

Until now. In a preliminary study, a team of scientists detail the strongest evidence found yet of winds flowing from the Milky…