Giant space bubbles baffle astronomers

www.telegraph.co.uk ^ | Thursday 11 November 2010 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Two giant gas bubbles - each one 25,000 light-years wide - discovered in our galaxy are baffling astronomers.

[stefanbatory]

beans and sauerkraut...

[Artemis Webb]

Mysterious gas bubbles...
then a mystery missile launch off California...
then Bristol continues to not be voted off DWTS....
hmmmm

[reagan_fanatic]

“How ‘bout some more beans, Mr. Taggart?”
“I’d say you’ve had enough!”

[jimpick]

hmmm indeed I see it too, very strange indeed. We need to examine Bush’s presidency some more.

[wolfcreek]

This can’t be a good thing.

[Diogenesis]

Another good reason to be creating black holes
on Earth?

[COBOL2Java]

Obviously, what we're seeing here is man-made galactic warming!

[Lou L]

These bubbles are 50,000 light years across, and no one’s seen them until now? This is series.

[frithguild]

Jets from the event horizon do not explain the shape. Certainly, the matter composing the disk would account for the location of each sphere. What I do not see is how a sngular jet leads to lobes of equal size. Many jets, perhaps. Or an extermely energetic jet rotating around the event horizon surface at an extraordinarily high rate.

Also, the hourglass shape, if that is the case, is problematic. This woule require that the gamma rays must be so energetic that anihilation would cause the rays to diffuse thus the curve up and out at the center.

[silverleaf]

Gorgeous pictures

[BradyLS]

...Therefore, give me money.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The bubbles were blown out by galactic jets from our galaxy’s central black hole.

[jmcenanly]

These bubbles are 50,000 light years across, and no one’s seen them until now? This is series.
We haven't been looking in Gamma radiation for that long.

[frithguild]

anihilation or scattering. Either way, jets do not explain the shape or the direction of the emanation from the event horizon.

It seems more like the sumermassive black hole rotates in the same direction as the galaxy and that it has poles that eject the gamma rays.

[mewzilla]

The universe burps. Go figger.

:)

[Gum Shoe]

“Gorgeous pictures”

Yeah...but I wonder how they got that camera so far out in space to take it?

[Whenifhow]

FYI

[Red Badger]

Our galaxy’s central black hole must have sucked in a planet full of pinto beans and cabbage.......................

[epithermal]

Who knew? — our galaxy has breasts