Mysterious 'Morse Code' in Milky Way's Center
Are there life out there?

An international team of scientists have discovered something they've never seen before hidden in the center of the Milky Way it resembles Morse code is that our galaxy trying to communicate with us in the early 1980s astronomers discovered giant one-dimensional filaments dangling vertically near Sagittarius. A star as our Galaxy's Central supermassive black hole and recently a new kind of such filament has been found but they're much shorter and lie either horizontally or radially in other words they're spreading out like spokes on a wheel going away from the black hole interestingly even though both types of filaments do have certain similarities, researchers believe they most likely have different origins the vertical filaments stretch through the Galaxy towering up to 150 light years high but the horizontal ones resemble the dashes and dots of morse code scientists were Beyond excited when they made the discovery but they had to do a lot of research to make sure the structures indeed were what they looked like they managed to confirm that the filaments were not random but tied to the outflow of the black hole thanks to them it became possible to study the spin of the black hole and the orientation of its accretion disk a rotating disk of matter formed around the black hole under the influence of its immense gravitational force but let's have a closer look at the filaments we've been talking about there are around 1000 vertical ones they appear in pairs and clusters and are often either equally spaced or side by side like strings on a harp as for their horizontal counterparts they seem to be around 6 million years old now both types of filaments are one-dimensional they can be viewed with radio waves and they seem to be tied to processes happening in the galactic center that's it the similarities end there the vertical filaments are perpendicular to the galactic plane the horizontal ones are parallel but at the same time they Point radially toward the center of the Galaxy and the black hole the vertical filaments are magnetic the horizontal ones seem to emit thermal radiation the vertical filaments contain particles moving at speeds very close to the speed of line the horizontal ones don't do it there are way more vertical filaments and they're much larger than those stretching horizontally 150 light years against 5 to 10 light years at most in any case the new discovery is still filled with tons of unknown things and astronomers are ready to start unraveling them, but the filaments aren't the only unexpected and bizarre phenomenon in the solar system some time ago Australian researchers discovered a weird spinning object in the Milky Way and it was unlike anything they had seen before this object released massive bursts of radio energy three times every hour and even though there are other objects that switch on and off for example pulsars such frequent pulsation has never been observed before some astronomers admitted that this discovery was pretty spooky since no known object in the sky could do it. Research teams started working on the Discovery and found out that the object is likely to be 4000 light years away from Earth it's also super bright and has an incredibly strong magnetic feel and still if you do all the math you'll discover that it isn't supposed to have enough power to produce such radio waves every 20 minutes the theories about the origin of this mysterious object vary some experts claim it could be an ultra long period magnetar whatever that is others think it might be a white dwarf or the remnants of a collapsed star but it also might be something we've never heard about an entirely new type of object but one thing is clear astronomers manage to observe the signal across a wide range of frequencies which means it has a natural origin and isn't something artificial.
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