If you tilt your head to the side and squint… 🤔⁣ ⁣ Thankfully, you don’t need to do either to see this sideways discovery. NASA researchers found that the black hole within the galaxy NGC 5084 is “tipped over!” The dark vertical line at the center of this image is a disk of dust that orbits the galaxy’s core. The disk’s presence implies that there’s a supermassive black hole there that also has a vertical orientation.⁣ ⁣ Astronomers at NASAAmes used new techniques to study legacy data from nasachandraxray and found four long plumes of plasma – hot, charged gas – emanating from NGC 5084. Hot gas plumes are not often spotted in galaxies, and typically only one or two are present. The surprising second set of plumes was a strong clue this galaxy housed a supermassive black hole, but there could have been other explanations.⁣ ⁣ What they saw in the Chandra data seemed so strange that they immediately looked to confirm it, digging into the data archives of other telescopes and requestin...