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'Unlike any objects we know': Scientists get their best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling at the Milky Way's center

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Astronomers recently zoomed in on the cosmic twisters using the Atacama Large Millimeter /submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile .

The new observations with ALMA are 100 times sharper than the earlier views.

They used ALMA to trace certain molecular compounds — such as silicon monoxide, which is particularly good at revealing shock waves — within the maelstrom.