Mystery Gas Has Been Detected Shooting ‘Like Bullets’ From Our Galactic Centre – ScienceAlert

There’s a lot going on in the centre of our galaxy. The Milky Way’s core is home to a supermassive black hole as massive as 4 million Suns called Sagittarius A*, and the environment around it is intense.
Blowing out from this region is a nuclear galactic wind. It’s carved out two huge gamma-ray bubbles above and below the galactic plane, extending a total of 50,000 light-years into space. These Fermi bubbles are complex, containing a mix of different gases and cosmic rays.
But astronomers have…

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