This is from 2010. Here’s a 2026 article. Spolier: we still don’t know what exactly these are. Space. 🤯
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/stories/quick-reads/blowing-bubbles-in-the-gamma-ray-sky/
Reminds me of the haidingers brush. Shows we are living in a fractal and everything repeats itself in slightly different form
Those are p orbitals!
Who took the picture?
Oh, I know this one! They hold the camera with their chin against their neck. It’s awkward, but that lets them have both balls in view.
Selfie stick
I did.
That’s an easy one. It’s the center pin because our galaxy is really one of these things.
Someone at the center ate Taco Bell
What are the bubbles?
Purple.
Interesting
Side-note: They’re not actually purple…
Pink, then?
Bollocks.
Nov 09, 2010 WASHINGTON – NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy. “What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend 25,000 light-years north and south of the galactic center,” said Doug Finkbeiner, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who first recognized the feature. “We don’t fully understand their nature or origin.” https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasas-fermi-telescope-finds-giant-structure-in-our-galaxy/
Probably just a supermassive black hole that ate something which isn’t as effected by gravity as we thought.
Pi orbitals
Ummm… reference?
Mitosis
