 New observations from Hubble have revealed the intricate structure of the Galaxy NGC-4696 in greater detail than ever before. Astronomers have found that each of the dusty filaments has a width of about 200 light-years. These filaments knit together and spiral inwards toward the center's supermassive black hole that's flooding the galaxy's inner region with energy, heating the gas and creating streams of heated material. It appears that these hot streams of gas bubble outwards, dragging the filamentary material with them as they go. The galaxy's magnetic field is also swept out with this bubbling motion, constraining and sculpting the material within the filaments.