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The supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy might be feeling a bit queasy — scientists say it “burped” out two gigantic bubbles of radioactive gases.<\/p>
Scientists first caught a fleeting glimpse of the bubbles — tens of lightyears wide — in the 1980s, according to Business Insider<\/em><\/a>. But thanks to the recently-constructed MeerKAT telescope<\/a> in South Africa, astronomers could finally get a better look at the mysterious bubbles and learn more about what caused them.<\/p> The bubbles are an unusual outburst for our galaxy’s black hole — compared to other galaxies’ central black holes, ours is comparatively inactive, according to research<\/a> published Wednesday in the journal Nature.<\/em><\/p> As such, the University of Oxford and Rhodes University astronomers behind the new survey suspect the bubbles are akin to cosmic indigestion — the black hole likely had a feeding frenzy when clumps of cosmic dust<\/a> passed nearby millions of years ago, just to spew it all back out in the form of the giant bubbles.<\/p> Millions of years later, the radio signals from the cosmic belch reached Earth, which is why scientists can detect them with the MeerKAT telescope.<\/p> “These enormous bubbles have until now been hidden by the glare of extremely bright radio emission from the [center] of the galaxy,” Fernando Camilo of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p> “Teasing out the bubbles from the background ‘noise’ was a technical tour de force,” he added.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>The black hole at the center of our galaxy just belched two giant bubbles of radiation<\/a> [Business Insider<\/em>]<\/p> More on space bubbles: <\/strong>Scientists Baffled by Giant Bubbles Sandwiching Our Galaxy<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Lets out Two Giant, Radioactive Burps<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read more: Table Manners The supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy might be feeling a bit queasy \u2014 scientists say it \u201cburped\u201d out two gigantic bubbles of radioactive gases. Scientists first caught a fleeting glimpse of the bubbles \u2014 tens of lightyears wide \u2014 in the 1980s, according to Business Insider . But thanks to the recently-constructed MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, astronomers could finally get a better look at the mysterious bubbles and learn more about what caused them Continue reading Big Boom<\/h2>
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