Unusual Pattern of Stripes in Universe Point to Black Hole at Center of Milky Way

Astronomers have found stripes arranged in an unusual pattern in our Universe. Scientists think there are hundreds of strips 5 to 10 light-years long.

Scientists have found ‘bands’ in our Universe lined up in a surprising pattern. It has been announced that these huge and unusual structures in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy indicate that there is a black hole in the center of the galaxy. Astronomers suggest that there are hundreds of these structures, each 5 to 10 light-years long.
“It was a surprise to suddenly discover a new population of structures that seem to point towards the black hole,” the Independent reported. Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, who led the research from Northwestern University, gave the following information about the study:

“I was really stunned to see these. We had to work hard to make sure we weren’t deceiving ourselves, and we found that these filaments did not appear to be random but due to the ejection of our black hole. By studying them, we can learn more about the rotation of the black hole and the orientation of the accretion disk. It’s satisfying to find order in the middle of the field.”

THE MYSTERY OF WHERE IT CAME FROM CANNOT BE SOLVED

Scientists cannot yet give a clear answer as to where these structures came from, and many things about their existence remain a mystery. However, they are thought to have been ejected after some activity a few million years ago.

In the early 1980s, Professor Yusef-Zadeh found a series of gigantic, one-dimensional filaments oscillating throughout our galaxy near the black hole called Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way. These had not been discovered before, and besides being much shorter, these filaments were extending out of the black hole.

Yusef-Zadeh said, “We were always thinking about vertical filaments and their origin. I’m used to them being vertical. I never thought there could be others along the plane.” said.

These strands also differ in other ways; previously discovered filaments are much longer and much more numerous.

turkey newspaper reported: The study article was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters with the title ‘The Population of the Galactic Center Filaments: Position Angle Distribution Reveal a Degree-scale Collimated Outflow from Sgr A* along the Galactic Plane’.