Astronomers Spotted A Huge “Invisible Structures” 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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19 Comments

  1. Cliff Martin said:

    No .. Dark matter is everywhere throughout the universe.. They’re saying it’s the size of a planet. But if it’s invisible, how do they know ?

  2. Trevor Crouch said:

    If it’s invisible, how can it be huge…lmao just because something is invisible doesn’t mean it has no size xD I didn’t read the article but that comment…if we learned how to turn things invisible, planets, airplanes, etc…are you saying that they won’t be big anymore? Just because its see through? Dear God…

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