Winds from massive stars supply ≈ 10 −3 M ⊙ yr −1 of gas to the central parsec of the Galactic Center. Spherically symmetric hydrodynamic calculations show that ≈ 1% of this gas, or ≈ 10 −5 M ⊙ yr −1 , flows in towards the central massive black hole Sgr A*; the remaining gas, ≈ 10 −3 M ⊙ yr −1 , is thermally driven out of the central star cluster in a wind. This dynamical model accounts for the...
