Marked on this ALMA image are the locations and orientations of 11 gas outflows, which look like the bipolar lobes made by young protostars. These outflows are all within about 3 light-years of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, marked with a star. Outflow #1 has the most obvious structure; the rest don’t show up well at this scale.
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![Gas Outflows Near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole](https://ciera.northwestern.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ALMA-1-1024x576.jpg)
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Yusef-Zadeh et al.; B.Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)