A death hole appeared in the middle of the galaxy's 'heart' containing Earth

Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that Sagittarius A* - the "monster heart" of the galaxy containing Earth - has a strange gas vent.

Sagittarius A* is the "hibernating" central black hole of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the galaxy containing the Earth.

The newly discovered strange hole is located about 26,000 light-years from Earth and is connected to a previously discovered chimney-like structure, perpendicular to the galactic plane.

According to Sci-News, this result reveals how Sagittarius A* can eat and eliminate matter.

The gas vent - with an enlarged image in the left corner - was discovered on the "chimney" structure of the black hole at the center of the galaxy containing the Earth - (Photo: NASA)

Previously, radio emissions recorded by the MeerKAT radio telescope system located in South Africa showed the impact of the magnetic field surrounding the gas in the "chimney".

Using Chandra to look more closely at this structure, the research team led by Dr. Scott Mackey from the University of Chicago (USA) discovered a number of X-ray ridges that are almost perpendicular to the galactic plane.

'We suspect that the magnetic field is acting like the walls of the "chimney" and hot gas is moving through them, like smoke,' Dr Mackey said.

Finally, they noticed that this "chimney" structure had a hole in the top.

They think the vent forms when hot air rising through the "chimney" hits cooler air in its path. The brightness of the vent wall in X-rays is due to the shock wave created by this collision.

The researchers suggest that the hot gas most likely came from a chain of events involving material falling into Sagittarius A* and then erupting from the black hole, traveling up the chimney and exiting through the vent. gas.

In other words, it's what's released from the " burps" of Earth's galactic heart, after meals.

Even though it's in hibernation, Sagittarius A* rips apart and devours a star every 20,000 years or so.

Such events would result in a powerful, explosive release of energy, much of which would rise through this vent and possibly many others in the "chimney" structure.

The particles and energy in this vent promise to provide clues to the origins of two mysterious and much larger structures around the galaxy, the Fermi Bubble and the eROSITA Bubble .

'The origin of the Fermi Bubble and the eROSITA Bubble is one of the biggest mysteries facing studies of high-energy radiation from galaxies. We have discovered a small structure that may play a big role in creating these giant bubbles' - said Dr. Mackey.

In addition, these peculiar gas vents also provide important information about past explosive activity near the center of the Milky Way, helping us understand more about the giant galaxy we reside in.