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Pluvious

(4,309 posts)
Fri Jun 2, 2023, 08:29 PM Jun 2023

Wild Stuff - "Scientists 'stunned' by mysterious structures found in the Milky Way"

These gotta be worm-hole transportation corridors amongst the higher-order galactic civilizations - LOL
(we are but bacteria to them!)



An international team of astrophysicists has discovered hundreds of mysterious structures in the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

These one-dimensional cosmic threads are hundreds of horizontal or radial filaments — slender, elongated bodies of luminous gas that potentially originated a few million years ago when outflow from Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, interacted with surrounding materials, according to a study published Friday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The filaments are relatively short in length, each measuring 5 to 10 light-years.

The findings come nearly 40 years after Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, the study’s lead author, and other researchers discovered another population of nearly 1,000 one-dimensional filaments, which are vertical and much larger at up to 150 light-years long each, near the galaxy’s center. Yusef-Zadeh and collaborators also found hundreds more paired and clustered vertical filaments in the same area in 2022, realizing the filaments were likely related to Sagittarius A* activity rather than bursts of supernovae, which they had previously thought. The new study both reinforces and builds upon the earlier findings.


“I was actually stunned when I saw these. We had to do a lot of work to establish that we weren’t fooling ourselves,” added Yusef-Zadeh, who’s also a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics. “We found that these filaments are not random but appear to be tied to the outflow of our black hole. … It is satisfying when one finds order in (the) middle of a chaotic field of the nucleus of our galaxy.”


"outflow of our black hole" wowzers !!
There's always been speculation about this possibly !
Matter endlessly falling into a black hole... Needs to go SOMEWHERE, eh ?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/world/milky-way-galaxy-filaments-discovered-study-scn/index.html
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Wild Stuff - "Scientists 'stunned' by mysterious structures found in the Milky Way" (Original Post) Pluvious Jun 2023 OP
We operate off the ROM and that is the motherboard? marble falls Jun 2023 #1
Nothing leaves a black hole... Takket Jun 2023 #2
Jackson Pollock, anyone ? Haggis 4 Breakfast Jun 2023 #3
I have no/zero what it all means UTUSN Jun 2023 #4
We are but rubes out here in the outer arm backwaters of the galaxy Shanti Shanti Shanti Jun 2023 #5

Takket

(21,560 posts)
2. Nothing leaves a black hole...
Fri Jun 2, 2023, 08:48 PM
Jun 2023

Except Hawking radiation.

BUT........



our own black hole does not have "jets" at this time (but might have in the ancient past), but like all black holes the accretion disk (swirling gas orbiting the black hole) is heating to incredible temperatures which causes flow of heat and some gas into the surrounding areas. This might be the outflow that caused the filaments?

Haggis 4 Breakfast

(1,453 posts)
3. Jackson Pollock, anyone ?
Fri Jun 2, 2023, 09:02 PM
Jun 2023

I read an article some time ago that scientists examining his paintings found fractals in the work !!!!!
 

Shanti Shanti Shanti

(12,047 posts)
5. We are but rubes out here in the outer arm backwaters of the galaxy
Sat Jun 3, 2023, 12:13 AM
Jun 2023

All the action is happening in the galactic center with all the sparkly lights, where the cool kids hang out

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