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This is from 2010. Here's a 2026 article. Spolier: we still don't know what exactly these are. Space. 🤯

https://science.nasa.gov/universe/stories/quick-reads/blowing-bubbles-in-the-gamma-ray-sky/

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    Nov 09, 2010 WASHINGTON – 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. “What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend 25,000 light-years north and south of the galactic center,” said Doug Finkbeiner, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who first recognized the feature. “We don’t fully understand their nature or origin.” https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasas-fermi-telescope-finds-giant-structure-in-our-galaxy/

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    Ummm... reference?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Pi orbitals

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Reminds me of the haidingers brush. Shows we are living in a fractal and everything repeats itself in slightly different form

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    Someone at the center ate Taco Bell

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    Probably just a supermassive black hole that ate something which isn't as effected by gravity as we thought.

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