NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy. […]
One possibility includes a particle jet from the supermassive black hole at the galactic center. In many other galaxies, astronomers see fast particle jets powered by matter falling toward a central black hole. While there is no evidence the Milky Way’s black hole has such a jet today, it may have in the past. The bubbles also may have formed as a result of gas outflows from a burst of star formation, perhaps the one that produced many massive star clusters in the Milky Way’s center several million years ago.
NASA: NASA’s Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our Galaxy
November 16, 2010 at 7:23 am
Umm… Isn’t this already known? Wasn’t this a part of the whole Mayan calendar stuff? A little late, aren’t they?
November 16, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Remnants is the wrong word. ‘Evidence’ is more apt.
Remnants infers that the singularity no longer exists.
December 28, 2011 at 7:18 pm
The title is extremely misleading.