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In the heart of our galaxy, there are powerful magnetic rivers that prevent gas from falling into the supermassive black hole at the very center. https://t.co/O6TYWnkM4u

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2020-06-15

A final highlight from SOFIA's first decade: It mapped magnetic fields that snake around our galaxy's supermassive black hole. Those fields seem to help keep the black hole quiet (for now). https://t.co/p6ojhgsl3L

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2020-05-19

A supermassive black hole ejected plasma jets at nearly the speed of light. The resulting bubbles are more than a million light years wide--10 times the size of our entire galaxy. https://t.co/rO88C7md8n

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2020-04-15

It looks like a delicate cosmic butterfly. In reality, ESO 137-006 is a violent outpouring of energetic particles shooting from a supermassive black hole & threading through an intergalactic tangle of magnetic fields. https://t.co/qGSaEm6SCS

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