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Milky Way had a blowout bash 6 million years ago
Science Daily ^ | August 29, 2016 | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Posted on 08/29/2016 9:05:38 PM PDT by sparklite2

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“The center of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black hole slumbers”

I thought the center was called ‘nougat’.


21 posted on 08/30/2016 4:30:36 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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Six million years later, the shock wave created by that phase of activity has crossed 20,000 light-years of space.

I presume this has passed us by already, he said hopefully.

22 posted on 08/30/2016 4:52:04 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#NeverTrumpers: "commercial self-interest masquerading as ideological purity")
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I’m surprised cosmologists would just plug-in this type of data to get this hypothesis.

I suspect that the better part of matter in the universe is incorporated in black holes that we don’t know anything about, and as detection methods improve, I suspect strongly that dark matter will fall by the wayside.


23 posted on 08/30/2016 6:56:39 AM PDT by onedoug
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