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A dormant volcano: the black hole at the heart of our galaxy is more explosive than we thought – The Bisouv Network – The Bisouv Network

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The supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy spat out an enormous flare of radiation 3.5 million years ago that would have been clearly visible from Earth.
In new research that will soon be published in the Astrophysical Journal my colleagues and I found that the flare left traces in a trail of gas called the Magellanic Stream that lies some 200,000 light years away and encircles the Milky Way.
The team includes Ralph Sutherland and Brent Groves at the Australian National University and…

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