Mass monster Sagittarius A* photographed for the first time. Strong, ordered magnetic field emanates from the large black hole at the center of our Milky Way.
Part of the gas is deflected by the magnetic field and, bundled into a narrow jet of matter, shoots thousands of light years out into space. Astronomers see such “jets” in many supermassive black holes in distant galaxies, including M87. However, researchers have not yet been able to detect any jets of material in the central black hole.