Universe: Weird objects discovered in the Milky Way – “Really strange signature”

• Astronomers from the University of California are now reporting an enigmatic discovery in the Milky Way.
• Six strange objects were identified in the center of our galaxy.
• There is now a theory of what it could be.

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los Angeles – Researchers are now reporting strange objects in space. Not somewhere, but at the center of ours Milky Way, There is already a theory of what it could be.

Discovery in the Milky Way: Own class of objects in space

The US astronomer Andrea Ghez and her team from the University of California in Los Angeles has now identified four more of these puzzling objects that circle the gigantic black hole called “Sagittarius A” in the center of the Milky Way. It is approximately 26,000 light years from Earth. In British Journal “Nature” The researchers report on the groundbreaking discovery: “These objects look like gas, but behave like stars.” It is said to be a new, separate class of astronomical objects, the exact nature of which is still unclear.

Black hole in the Milky Way: Six objects orbit around it

Astronomers first tracked down a first of these objects in 2005. Another discovery of this kind was made in 2012 by researchers led by Stefan Gillessen from Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching* near Munich. This object, known as the G2, flew very closely two years later Black hole over and was literally drawn out. It got “a really strange signature” with this approach. G2 expanded strangely.

Now Andrea Ghez’s team has discovered four other objects near the extreme black hole in the center of the Milky Way. They circle their orbits around the black hole.

The astronomers have now put forward the theory that the six objects are fused together or in a merging process Binary stars could act.

Universe: Why did object G2 survive near the black hole in the Milky Way?

The object observed by the Garching researchers at the time had its approach to the black hole gas shell lost. However, something “must have kept it compact and allowed it to survive the black hole encounter,” writes Anna Ciurlo of the University of California. She is the lead author of the publication. This fact is “an indication of a star-like object inside G2”. The gas envelope was gone, but not the thick dust jacket inside the gas.

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List of rubric lists: © Anna Ciurlo, Tuan Do / UCLA Galactic Center Group

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