Scientists Discover Mysterious Stripes in the Universe Pointing to Central Black Hole

Scientists have found a series of stripes in the universe arranged in an unexpected pattern.

The Independent in Turkish to have According to these structures, located in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy, point to the central black hole. The research is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, “The Population of the Galactic Center Filaments: Position Angle Distribution Reveal a Degree-scale Collimated Outflow from Sgr A* along the Galactic Plane” (Population of Galactic Center Filaments: Position Angle Distribution Reveals Degree-Scale Paralleled Outflow from Sgr A* Across the Galactic Plane).

“It’s satisfying to find order in the middle of a chaotic space”

The researchers say there are hundreds of these structures, each 5 to 10 light-years long. from Northwestern University, who led the research Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, “It was a surprise to suddenly find a new population of structures that seem to point towards the black hole.” he records the following:

“I was really stunned when I saw these. We had to work hard to make sure we weren’t deceiving ourselves. And we found that these filaments didn’t seem to be random, but rather due to our black hole ejecting matter. By studying them, we can learn more about the rotation of the black hole and the orientation of the accretion disk. It’s satisfying to find order in the middle of the field.”

One-dimensional filament was discovered in the early 1980s

Scientists have no confirmed explanation of where these structures came from. One possible explanation is that they were thrown out after some activity a few million years ago.

Professor in the early 1980s Yusef-Zadehfound a series of gigantic, one-dimensional filaments oscillating throughout the galaxy near the black hole called Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way. These previously undiscovered new filaments are much shorter and stretch out the entire length, radiating outward from the black hole. Yusef-Zadeh, “We were always thinking about vertical filaments and their origin. I’m used to them being vertical. I never thought there could be others along the plane.” said.