{"id":238493,"date":"2026-06-06T06:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/milky-way-black-holes-missing-wind-finally-found-after-a-half-century-long-search"},"modified":"2026-06-06T06:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:10:19","slug":"milky-way-black-holes-missing-wind-finally-found-after-a-half-century-long-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/milky-way-black-holes-missing-wind-finally-found-after-a-half-century-long-search","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way black hole\u2019s missing wind finally found after a half-century-long search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/milky-way-black-holes-missing-wind-finally-found-after-a-half-century-long-search2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hunt is over. After more than 50 years of searching, astrophysicists at Northwestern University have finally discovered evidence of a powerful wind blowing from the Milky Way\u2019s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A<span style=\"font-size: 1.3em;\">\u2022<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>According to theoretical physics and a long-accepted understanding of galaxies\u2019 evolution, as black holes consume materials, they should produce wind or jets. Even a small amount of gas falling into a black hole should generate enough energy to push material outwards. Without wind, Sgr A* would be a unique outlier.<\/p>\n<p>But, until now, no one could find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hunt is over. After more than 50 years of searching, astrophysicists at Northwestern University have finally discovered evidence of a powerful wind blowing from the Milky Way\u2019s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A\u2022. According to theoretical physics and a long-accepted understanding of galaxies\u2019 evolution, as black holes consume materials, they should produce [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238493","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}