Beautiful Astronomy

[stickmaker]

Article about the plasma lobes above and below the Milky Way's disk, caused by gamma rays beaming out of the megastellar black hole at the galaxy's core:

http://www.universetoday.com/95504/ghostly-jets-haunt-the-milky-ways-black-hole/#more-95504

There's an artist's impression of the view edge on from a distance.