Black Hole Whips Up Record-High Cosmic Winds

The U.S. space agency says it has found cosmic winds moving at 32 million kilometers per hour, about three percent of the speed of light, which travels almost 300,000 kilometers per second.

NASA says its orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory measured the fastest cosmic wind ever recorded as gas was being sucked into the powerful gravitational vortex of a black hole called a stellar-mass black hole.