It's a huge bipolar gas structure, hundreds of light-years across, centered on our galaxy's center and near the galaxy's central supermassive black hole. Astronomers found it with the new, supersensitive MeerKAT telescope in South Africa.
Read MoreAnalysis of data from the Gaia satellite shows a powerful burst of star formation - a stellar baby boom - in our Milky Way galaxy 2 to 3 billion years ago. This single burst might have created half the stars in the galaxy's flat disk.
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