A cosmic fountain is just as cool as it sounds — and stunningly beautiful to match. When vast amounts of gas fall toward a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy cluster, gravitational and electromagnetic forces spray most of the gas away continuously for tens of millions of years. Scientists combined data from X-ray, radio, and optical telescopes (including nasachandraxray!) to confirm the first clear evidence for the simultaneous inward and outward flow of gas being driven by a supermassive black hole! Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/G. Tremblay et al; Radio:ALMA: ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/G.Tremblay et al, NRAO/AUI/NSF/B.Saxton; Optical: ESO/VLT #NASA #Chandra #Space #Galaxy #SolarSystem #Cosmic #Universe #Astronomy #GalaxyCluster #BlackHole #Astrophysics #CosmicFountain #SupermassiveBlackHole #Telescope #DarkMatter #Beautiful