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comment by am_Unition
am_Unition  ·  919 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Milky Way’s Black Hole Comes to Light

@33:36 in the embedded press release vid is so dope.

I expected the accretion disk to align with the plane of the galaxy, meaning that they would at least roughly share an axis of rotation.

Aaaaaand as I'm typing this comment, he makes that point. Waaaaaay under-emphasized. It's not even close! The two rotation axes are almost orthogonal!

What in the fuck?! Turn on James Webb, stat!