I seem to be on a roll here! I use the very professional word “gunk” to describe the material between the Galactic center and us in this little blurb in Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=milky-way-black-hole-jet. I was not involved in this paper but I find it super interesting, and in fact one of the PhD students in my group, Sander Walg, is going to try to construct a model of the jet/cloud interaction using the MHD code AMRVAC. We want to see if we can reproduce the features with values for the jet and surrounding parameters that are consistent with our best models and data.
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