Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers recently discovered a never-before-seen celestial phenomenon hiding in our own cosmic backyard. The mystery object, ...

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Astronomers have identified massive, previously unseen filaments stretching toward Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central black hole, using X-ray and radio observations. These horizontal, thread-like ...