This is from 2010. Here’s a 2026 article. Spolier: we still don’t know what exactly these are. Space. 🤯
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/stories/quick-reads/blowing-bubbles-in-the-gamma-ray-sky/
What are the bubbles?
Purple.
Interesting
Side-note: They’re not actually purple…
Pink, then?
Purnk
Who took the picture?
Oh, I know this one! They hold the camera with their chin against their neck. It’s awkward, but that lets them have both balls in view.
Selfie stick
I did.
Nov 09, 2010 WASHINGTON – NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy. “What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend 25,000 light-years north and south of the galactic center,” said Doug Finkbeiner, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who first recognized the feature. “We don’t fully understand their nature or origin.” https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasas-fermi-telescope-finds-giant-structure-in-our-galaxy/
Those are p orbitals!
this made me laugh, thanks
Reminds me of the haidingers brush. Shows we are living in a fractal and everything repeats itself in slightly different form
Ummm… reference?
Pi orbitals
That’s an easy one. It’s the center pin because our galaxy is really one of these things.
Someone at the center ate Taco Bell
Bollocks.
Mitosis
Probably just a supermassive black hole that ate something which isn’t as effected by gravity as we thought.
