Galactic warming: The 'car engine-like' effect heating our Milky Way

Our Milky Way's halo of hot gas is warmer to the "south" than the "north" because of an internal combustion engine-like ...
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Scientists explain why Milky Way's southern gas is glowing 12 percent hotter than the northern part

The gaseous halo in our galaxy has a mass of 100 billion solar masses, which implies that it has more matter than in the ...
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Microquasars emerge as the Milky Way’s most extreme particle engines

LHAASO has uncovered that micro-quasars, black holes feeding on companion stars, are powerful PeV particle accelerators. Their jets produce ultra-high-energy gamma rays and protons that exceed ...
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A giant wave is rippling through the Milky Way, and scientists don’t know why

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...
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Is the Milky Way wobbling through space like a top?

The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show our home galaxy as a warped, rippling disc that appears to twist and ...