Black Hole at Galaxy’s Center Launches Planet-Size ‘Spitballs’

The massive object at the Milky Way’s core is shredding stars and tossing out their remnants, new simulations suggest. The monster black hole at the center of our galaxy is shooting out “spitballs” the size of planets—and one may be sprinting through space several hundred light-years away from Earth. It seems a somewhat odd phenomenon, …