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These two enormous bubbles stretch nearly 50,000 light-years above and below the center of the Milky Way (lemmy.world)
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[–] doc@fedia.io 46 points 3 days ago

This is from 2010. Here's a 2026 article. Spolier: we still don't know what exactly these are. Space. 🤯

https://science.nasa.gov/universe/stories/quick-reads/blowing-bubbles-in-the-gamma-ray-sky/