Milky Way had a blowout bash 6 million years ago
Monday, August 29, 2016 - 10:41
in Astronomy & Space
The center of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black hole slumbers, only occasionally slurping small sips of hydrogen gas. But it wasn’t always this way. A new study shows that 6 million years ago, when the first human ancestors known as hominins walked the Earth, our galaxy’s core […]