The accretion disk around our galaxy’s black hole has been spotted at last
The finding confirms that gases are orbiting the Milky Way’s gravitational behemoth
![center of Milky Way](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/060419_lg_sgra_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
ORGANIZED CHAOS The black hole in the center of the Milky Way has a chaotic entourage of stars and gas, shown here in X-ray light. But new observations with the ALMA telescope array show a relatively neat disk of glowing gas rotating around the black hole.
F. Baganoff et al, MIT, CXC/NASA