Astro scientists said the discovery is significant because it maps out a clearer picture of our galaxy's composition and has astronomical implications in understanding how stars are formed.

New Alberta-led research has discovered black holes are girded by electromagnetic winds that not only influence how the super-dense interstellar bodies gobble up anything that gets too close but also how they affect vast areas of space around them.

In a neighbourhood of our galaxy, some 15,000 light years away, a white dwarf star travelling 5,000,000 km/h is suspected to be orbiting a black hole just 2.5 times the distance of Earth to our sun.