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Related: About this forumScientists discover fountain of anti-matter in galaxy measuring 40 trillion miles
Longest-ever observed filament found using Nasas Chandra X-ray observatory
Jon Kelvey
9 hours ago
Astronomers have discovered a 40-trillion-mile-long filament of matter and antimatter ejected by a pulsar and glowing in X-ray light, the largest one ever found.
Astronomers first discovered the filament, which are the largest known structures in the universe, in 2020 using Nasas Chandra X-ray observatory, a space telescope turned to X-ray energies.
But Chandras detector was not large enough to view the full length of the plume, and in a recent press release, the Chandra team announced the discovery of the record-breaking length three times longer than any plume observed previously based on new observations.
The source of the plume is pulsar PSR J2030+4415, a rapidly spinning neutron star with a powerful magnetic field around 1,600 light years from Earth within our galaxy. A pulsar compresses all the maps of a supermassive star into a space the size of a small city, spinning three times Each second.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/space/scientists-antimatter-fountain-galaxy-b2036554.html
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Scientists discover fountain of anti-matter in galaxy measuring 40 trillion miles (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Mar 2022
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Sry but now I must quibble w/ YOU! tRump's SupadupaGalactic ClusterFucks are a GAZILLION miles long!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Mar 2022
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InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,496 posts)1. Hard to fathom.
Roy Rolling
(7,105 posts)2. Conversion
Its easier if you think of it as 10,000 trillion giraffes long.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,496 posts)4. LMFAO!! 😂🤣
Javaman
(62,923 posts)7. correction: 10,000 1/2 giraffes long. ;) LOL nt
markbark
(1,587 posts)3. Neat!
....although I would quibble with "the filament, which are the largest known structures in the universe"
40 trillion miles is a tad under 7 light years. Galactic superclusters are a wee bit larger
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,496 posts)5. Sry but now I must quibble w/ YOU! tRump's SupadupaGalactic ClusterFucks are a GAZILLION miles long!
Angleae
(4,613 posts)6. Possibly even a Brazillion miles.