The center of the Milky Way is an extreme place. In addition to housing our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, it also contains a 700-light-year-wide region of dense gas called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This CMZ holds nearly 80 percent of all the cold, dense gas in the galaxy — the key ingredient for formingContinue reading “Largest ALMA image ever shows cold gas in our galactic center”
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