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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWild 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 Ways 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 studys 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 galaxys 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.
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 Ways 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 studys 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 galaxys 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 werent fooling ourselves, added Yusef-Zadeh, whos 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 are but rubes out here in the outer arm backwaters of the galaxy
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Jun 2023
#5
marble falls
(57,077 posts)1. We operate off the ROM and that is the motherboard?
Takket
(21,560 posts)2. Nothing leaves a black hole...
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 ?
I read an article some time ago that scientists examining his paintings found fractals in the work !!!!!
UTUSN
(70,683 posts)4. I have no/zero what it all means
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)5. We are but rubes out here in the outer arm backwaters of the galaxy
All the action is happening in the galactic center with all the sparkly lights, where the cool kids hang out