Mysterious Galactic Filaments and Threads Discovered in Milky Way's Core

New filaments have been discovered near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. These filaments are shorter and lie horizontally, pointing directly to Sagittarius A*. They are related to the activity of Sagittarius A*, but it is unclear if the two types of filaments are related. The vertical filaments are magnetic accelerating particles close to the speed of light, while the horizontal ones appear to emit heat, accelerating thermal material in a molecular cloud. The newly discovered filaments are estimated to be about 6 million years old and may have originated from an outflow from an activity that happened a few million years ago.