Scientists Find Mysterious Cosmic Threads In The Centre Of Milky Way
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The discovery is based on an analysis of the data captured by South African Radio Astronomy Observatory's MeerKAT radio telescope.
An international team of scientists has discovered hundreds of mysterious structures in the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. According to The Guardian, these 'cosmic threads' point towards the supermassive black hole. Each of these filaments stretches about five to 10 light years and appears like dots and dashes of Morse code on a vast scale, the outlet further said. A study detailing the discovery of these elongated bodies of luminous gas has been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
These structures are located 2,500 light years away from Earth.
Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, the lead author and an astronomer at Northwestern University in Illinois' Evanston, said he was "stunned" by the discovery.
"They all seem to trace back to the black hole. They are telling us something about the activity of the black hole itself," he told The Guardian.
