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> May relate to our black hole:
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> https://www.newscientist.com/article/2376644-hundreds-of-weird-filaments-of-gas-are-hiding-in-our-galaxys-centre/
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> "The centre of our galaxy is full of hundreds of strange threads of hot gas, which may have formed due to an outburst from Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s resident supermassive black hole.
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> "Farhad Yusef-Zadeh at Northwestern University in Illinois and his colleagues found these filaments using data from the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. In the 1980s, Yusef-Zadeh discovered a set of vertical filaments aligned perpendicular to the disc of the galaxy, but the newfound horizontal filaments were completely unexpected.
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> “'The vertical filaments are aligned with the galaxy’s magnetic field, but the rest should be randomly aligned,” he says. “The pattern that I saw caught me by surprise – at first, I didn’t believe it."
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> "While the vertical filaments measured up to 150 light years tall, the horizontal ones are only 5 to 10 light years long, all pointing towards Sagittarius A*. These horizontal filaments seem to be made of gas, unlike the vertical filaments, which are most likely made up of high-energy electrons. They also seem to be moving away from Sagittarius A*, towards the outer areas of the galaxy where Earth sits.
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> "While the vertical filaments measured up to 150 light years tall, the horizontal ones are only 5 to 10 light years long, all pointing towards Sagittarius A*. These horizontal filaments seem to be made of gas, unlike the vertical filaments, which are most likely made up of high-energy electrons. They also seem to be moving away from Sagittarius A*, towards the outer areas of the galaxy where Earth sits.
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> "There have been some hints from studies of the area right next to Sagittarius A* that such an outburst occurred, but they have not been confirmed yet. “We really want to piece together these larger-scale structures with the smaller scale around the black hole and show that there really is this jet coming out along the disc of the galaxy,” says Yusef-Zadeh. “That could have really profound implications on our understanding of the spin axis of the black hole.”
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> "It could mean that Sagittarius A*’s spin axis is perpendicular to that of the galaxy as a whole, which would be an important clue as to how our galaxy formed and how it interacts with its central black hole now."
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> Comment: still lots to learn about the Milky Way. Since it contains our Earth with its life, I would assume it is carefully favored by God and everything is there for a purpose of protecting the Earth from untoward events.