Astronomers Report a Huge “Invisible Structure” In The Milky Way

This is how they found the “structures” and a bit more on what they think they might be?

The detection of these structures was made by astronomers working at the CSIRO’s Compact Array telescope in eastern Australia. Although previous research had hinted at their presence before, this new paper – published in the journal Science – helps to constrain their size and shape a bit better.

Don’t think these are big, solid objects though. Essentially, the structures appear to be large clumps of some sort of material, possibly clouds of cool gas, in the existing thin gas that lies between stars. And they appear to be in odd shapes. The astronomers described them as looking like hollow “noodles” or hazelnuts – with material on the outside and a hollow center. Some may even be sheet-like, and we could be looking at them edge-on.

What do you think these are?  Feel free to comment with your ideas and check back for updates on this story.

thanks to iflscience.com for the great info

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31 Comments

  11. David Hua Ken Cheng said:

    The Universe is dotted with these strange invisible structures – clumps of cool dense gases and cool down plasma – from the Outflow of a dead Black Hole – captured by turbulence – and lingered on long after its demised – billion of years ago.

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  12. Duane Sevarns said:

    Dude get some new news all you do is post old$#%&!@*that has already been posted this is from last year I read this on a difrent page

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  27. David Bender said:

    I think science saw how religious people could make up anything and everyone would believe it.
    Now science just pulls things out of their butts and people just blindly believe it.
    Then science is like, “I can’t believe they believed that!”

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