The Milky Way Has a Mysterious ‘Broken Bone’

If you look at This Milky Way With a strong telescope, you will notice that there are prolonged filaments near the center of the galaxy that seems to be a spiral size outline. Scientists have a nickname for this structure: “Galactic bone.” Recently, astronomers have found that a bone in Milkyo is “broken”, and they believe that they have now found a potential criminal: a neutron star that can collide with it.

According to NASAThese bones are the huge prolonged structure of enthusiastic particles that spiral along the magnetic fields running through the galaxy. The particles reveal radio waves and so identify using radio telescopes.

Scientists have found several bones in the galaxy, but one of the most interesting is called G359.13142-0.20005, it is also known as “snake”. This is a 230-halka-year-long filament that seems to have a fracture. This is one of the brightests. One of the first explanations is that something still detected body filament disturbed.

A study of Harvard University published in the journal Royal Astronomy SocietySet to check this assumption. The research team found in the research team found a pulsar signs, a neutron star, rolling high in the same area as broken bone. These stars are extremely thick, and small residues after a supermasive star exploded.

NASA use Lunar x-ray observatoryThe earth Mirkat South Africa and the telescope array Very large array In New Mexico – two systems that detect radio waves – scientists seem to be present as a symbol of pulse in the filament. Based on the data obtained from these observations, they assume that this pulse affected the bone at a speed of 1,609,000 to 3,218,000 km per hour. The suspicious collision is believed to distort the magnetic field of the bone, resulting in distorting its radio signal.

The structure is visible on the right of G359.13, on the right.

Photograph: NASA/CXC/North -West University

In the above image given by NASA, the snake is seen and there is a body that seems to be interacting with the structure in the middle of its length. This is probably the aforementioned neutron star.

Pulsar is an alternative version of a neutron star where they are in addition to the compact object, they rotate high speed and create strong magnetic fields. At this point there is no device that can see them directly because of their size and distance, but radio telescopes emit them and convert them into words to detect electronic magnetic waves.

This story was originally attended Wired In Spanish And have been translated from Spanish.