{"id":209811,"date":"2025-03-26T18:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/space-tornadoes-discovered-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy"},"modified":"2025-03-26T18:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:04:54","slug":"space-tornadoes-discovered-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/space-tornadoes-discovered-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSpace tornadoes\u201d discovered at the center of our galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-tornadoes-discovered-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep in the galaxy\u2019s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way\u2019s center, clouds of dust and gas swirl amid energetic shock waves.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a collaboration of international astronomers \u2013 using the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.almaobservatory.org\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ALMA<\/a>) \u2013 has greatly sharpened our view of these processes by a factor of 100.<\/p>\n<p>The team has uncovered an unexpected class of long, narrow filaments within this turbulent region, giving fresh insight into the cyclical formation and destruction of material in the CMZ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep in the galaxy\u2019s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way\u2019s center, clouds of dust and gas swirl amid energetic shock waves. Now, a collaboration of international astronomers \u2013 using the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) \u2013 has greatly sharpened our view of these processes by a factor of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}