![496-gas-clouds-black-hole-milky-way [496] Gas Clouds near the central Black Hole — Sagittarius-A ; Clouds of gas and dust swirl into the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy. An illustration by Don Dixon depicting the complex environment surrounding a supermassive black hole at a galactic center, specifically highlighting the interaction between orbiting gas clouds and the central accretion disk. The scene illustrates gravitational capture and tidal disruption of molecular clouds, contributing to the fueling of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) and the generation of a powerful relativistic jet.digital, for Scientific American, 2013. copyright Don Dixon / cosmographica.com](496-galactic-center-black-hole-gas-clouds-dixon.jpg)
[496] Gas Clouds near the central Black Hole — Sagittarius-A ; Clouds of gas and dust swirl into the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy. An illustration by Don Dixon depicting the complex environment surrounding a supermassive black hole at a galactic center, specifically highlighting the interaction between orbiting gas clouds and the central accretion disk. The scene illustrates gravitational capture and tidal disruption of molecular clouds, contributing to the fueling of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) and the generation of a powerful relativistic jet.digital, for Scientific American, 2013. copyright Don Dixon / cosmographica.com
Click to open this image within the album!
![496-gas-clouds-black-hole-milky-way [496] Gas Clouds near the central Black Hole — Sagittarius-A ; Clouds of gas and dust swirl into the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy. An illustration by Don Dixon depicting the complex environment surrounding a supermassive black hole at a galactic center, specifically highlighting the interaction between orbiting gas clouds and the central accretion disk. The scene illustrates gravitational capture and tidal disruption of molecular clouds, contributing to the fueling of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) and the generation of a powerful relativistic jet.digital, for Scientific American, 2013. copyright Don Dixon / cosmographica.com](../index.html#img=496-galactic-center-black-hole-gas-clouds-dixon.jpg)