Several forms of alcohol, including ethyl alcohol, were discovered a half century ago in Sagittarius B2, a giant cloud of gas and dust near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The cloud contains enough material to make millions of stars plus two billion billion billion gallons of ethyl alcohol. It also contains alcohol molecules like those used in hand sanitizers (depicted here), which are the most complex alcohol molecules ever detected in space. The background image shows an image of the center of the galaxy made in radio waves. The central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is enwrapped by glowing material to the right of Sagittarius B2. [phys.org]
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