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APR 27, 2015 8:10 PM PDT

Did You Know This Was At The Center Of The Milky Way Galaxy?

WRITTEN BY: Andrew J. Dunlop
A new object found at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy

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.
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Andrew J. Dunlop
Bachelor's (BA/BS/Other)
Andrew J. Dunlop lives and writes in a little town near Boston. He's interested in space, the Earth, and the way that humans and other species live on it.
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