Astronomers find giant, previously unseen structure in our galaxy

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 10:50 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centred in the Milky Way - a finding likened in terms of scale to the discovery of a new continent on Earth. The feature, which spans 50,000 light-years, may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the centre of our galaxy...

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