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Science 6 October 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5796, p. 13
DOI: 10.1126/science.314.5796.13f
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Figure 1 The center of the Milky Way Galaxy not only harbors a black hole, but within the inner hundreds of parsecs lie many unusual features, including oddly shaped gas filaments and regions of hot molecular gas with very violent motions. Fukui et al. (p. 106; see the Perspective by Morris) obtained a sequence of CO spectral-line images of the region taken at millimeter wavelengths that reveal vast loops of fast-moving molecular gas. They suggest the loops are expelled by magnetic buoyancy effects similar to those on the Sun's surface. Modeling shows that this magnetic picture can explain the high velocity dispersions of the hot-gas regions.

CREDIT: FUKAI ET AL.




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