Page 6 - Andrea Merloni News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

That s incredible. We re 26,000 light years from the galaxy s center, but these structures are so huge they cover a significant fraction of our sky. However, they emit no visible light we know of, so we can t see them by eye.
Zoom In
They appear to be bubbles, thin-walled structures filled with hot gas. However, hot gas on its own can t make gamma rays. Most likely there are powerful shock waves as the gas plows into the thin material floating around just outside our galaxy, as well as strong magnetic fields locked in with the gas; together these can accelerate subatomic particles to incredibly high energies, making them capable of making the gamma rays Fermi saw. ....

Ettore Carretti , Axel Mellinger , Eli Bressert , Andrea Merloni , Central Michigan University , Milky Way , Imaging Telescope Array , அச்சு மெல்லிங்கர் , மைய மிச்சிகன் பல்கலைக்கழகம் , பால் வழி , இமேஜிங் தொலைநோக்கி வரிசை ,