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Milky Way Bubbles

Bill M
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Astronomers have recently observed that giant gamma ray "bubbles" are emanating from the hypothetical black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.  The exact origin of the massive (64,000 light-years long) bubbles is currently being debated.

Image courtesy of NASA

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oh the irony

Submitted by Trompe L_oeil on Mon, 06/14/2010 - 12:29.
looks like that big milky wheel is giving us a heads up, an hourglass you say? looks like the time is coming to turn it over. "in order for there to be order... there must first be disorder"

sweet event horizon

Submitted by Five on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 21:53.
what if it's not a Black Hole at all....at the centre of the galaxy....but a huge Central Sun?