ScienceActually · @scienceactually
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Fermi bubbles are two gamma-ray and X-ray emitting bubbles that extend about 25 thousand light-years above and below the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/co

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Louis Marmet · @redshiftdrift
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@johncarlosbaez are an almost perfect fit to the spherical regions of a cos(theta) pattern (green circles on the image), not the hourglass shape (black). We can't expect perfection, but we have to see this for what it is.

I'm still rejecting the hypothesis that these bubbles emanated from the centre of the Milky Way.

#fermibubbles

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Louis Marmet · @redshiftdrift
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@johncarlosbaez In my long experience as a physicist, explosions I have seen produce a ~sphere centered on the exploding object.
There are two , they don't share a common center with each other nor with the black hole.
I'd say the explosion scenario doesn't work at all.

#fermibubbles

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yeti · @yeti
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