Mysterious Cosmic Threads Discovered at Milky Way's Core

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has discovered hundreds of filaments of gas, each 5-10 light-years in length, radiating outward along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy like spokes on a bicycle wheel with the galaxy's black hole at the hub. The filaments appear to be tied to the outflow of the black hole and could teach us more about the black hole's spin and accretion disc orientation. The findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.