Oh, this? It's an *actual image* of the magnetic field lines surrounding Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. That shadow in the middle is the black hole itself. Credit: EHT Collaboration
The image is polarised, and the linear features correspond to the direction of that polarisation, which in turn correlates with the orientations of the magnetic field lines around the Sgr A*. Read more about how this image was acquired: eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronome…
@ThePlanetaryGuy LOL, so the jet is pointing right at us? Blazing through the galactic plane?
@ThePlanetaryGuy @cabral_psyd Cue Cygnus X1 and turn it up!
What if the black hole at the center of galaxies is not a black hole at all? What if that is just where matter and anti-matter arms of the galaxy meet and self-annihilate converting all mass into a jets of neutrinos shooting out the top and anti-neutrinos shooting out the bottom which will slowly coalesce into normal matter and anti-matter but can only be seen when they light up due to close proximity to the opposing arm of the new galaxy they have been drawn into? Questions that keep you up at night...
@ThePlanetaryGuy This is a great example of my point from another post somewhere out there *waves widely in interwebs* about why you'll never have to worry about spaghettification in a black hole. The magnetic field will atomize you long before the tidal forces get to you.