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A Fast-Moving Pulsar Fractures the Milky Way's Galactic Bone

A Fast-Moving Pulsar Fractures the Milky Way's Galactic Bone
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A Fast-Moving Pulsar Fractures the Milky Way's Galactic Bone

The center of the Milky Way is a busy place, tightly packed with stars and dominated by the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. It also features powerful magnetic fields that regulate star production, influence gas dynamics and gas cloud formation, and even affect the accretion processes around Sagittarius A*. Gigantic filaments of gas that look like bones form along the magnetic field lines, and one of them appears to be fractured.



May 3, 2025 at 03:01AM
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