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Giant ‘bubbles’ spotted around Milky Way’s black hole

First major result from South Africa’s pioneering MeerKAT radiotelescope reveals remnants of energetic explosions at Galaxy’s centre.
  1. Davide Castelvecchi
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In its first major result, just over a year after its inauguration, a super-sensitive South African telescope has discovered two giant ‘radio bubbles’ above and below the central region of the Milky Way. The features stretch over a total of 430 parsecs (1,400 light years), about 5% of the distance between the Solar System and the Galaxy’s centre.

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Nature 573, 322 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02726-x

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