Astronomers discover the largest structure in Milky Way Galaxy, which is located 55,000 light-years away from Earth, and it is a hydrogen filament, and these huge filaments called Magi are 3900 light-years long, 130 light-years wide and formed more than 13 billion years ago.
According to the British newspaper, “Daily Mail”, an international team led by Astronomy scientists From the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) The structure using the satellite Gaia of the European Space Agency (ESA).THAT).
Co-researcher Juan Soler actually found the first evidence of the creature a year ago and named it “Magi” after the longest river in his native Colombia, the Río Magdalena.
Maggie was already identifiable in previous evaluations of the data, and Soler said in a statement that only the current study proves beyond reasonable doubt that it is a coherent structure.
Hydrogen formed about 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the Milky Way formed about a billion years ago, and it is the most abundant substance in the universe.
However, discovering gas can be a daunting task, which makes discovering long strings exceptionally exciting.
Jonas Syed, PhD student at MPIA “The location of this filament has contributed to this success,” the lead researcher for the research paper published in the Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics said in a statement. “We don’t yet know exactly how it got there. But the filament extends about 1,600 light-years below the plane of the Milky Way.”
Also, after a deeper analysis of Magee, the team found that the gas converges at some points along the filament, areas where hydrogen is likely to accumulate and condense into larger clouds. The researchers also suspect that these are the environments in which the atomic gas gradually changes into a molecular form.
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