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Do black holes do more than devour matter?

The supermassive one at the centre of our galaxy is surprisingly windy — spitting material out as well as taking it in

The writer is a science commentator

The giveaway was not so much what was there — but what was missing. When astronomers looked closely at the cold molecular gas shrouding the supermassive black hole at the heart of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, they found a vast blank gap.

From the lip of the monstrous black hole, called Sagittarius A*, a large cone of nothingness funnelled outwards. This, researchers announced last week, is long-sought evidence of a hot breeze flowing outwards from the black hole and sweeping away the cold gas in its path, and one that has been blowing for around 20,000 years.

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