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NASA's Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Bubble-like Structure in Our Galaxy

11/17/2010 12:30AM

NASA's Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Bubble-like Structure in Our Galaxy

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen bubble-like structure centered in the Milky Way. The bubble, which spans 50,000 light-years, may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy. At more than 100 degrees across, the structure spans more than half of the sky, from the constellation Virgo to the constellation Grus. The bubble also appears to have well-defined edges. Taken together, the structure's shape and emissions suggest that it was formed as a result of a large and relatively rapid energy release -- the source of which remains a mystery.


Comments:

  • wcarter3 [William Carter]
  • 11/30/2010 05:12AM
This is an exciting discovery. It will shed more light on galaxy formation and structure. The galaxy formation supercomputer models never showed anything like this. Nature is indeed "stranger than we can even imagine."