Astronomers were able to discover the largest structure in the Milky Way, which is located 55,000 light years from Earth, and it is hydrogen filaments, 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 astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy measured (MPIA) The structure using the satellite Gaia of the European Space Agency (THAT).
Co-researcher Juan Soler actually found the first evidence of this creature a year ago and named it “Maggi” 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 a reasonable doubt that it is a coherent structure..
Hydrogen was formed about 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the Milky Way galaxy formed about a billion years ago, and it is the most common substance in the universe.
However, gas discovery can be a daunting task, which makes longline discovery exceptionally exciting.
Jonas Syed, a doctoral student at MPIA And the first researcher for the research paper published in the Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics said in a statement: “The location of this filament has contributed to this success,” adding, “We do not 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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