A mysterious space wall protects the Earth
The Galactic Center region of the Milky Way Galaxy contains
a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A, as well as other
types of particle accelerators and supernova remnants. It is here
that astronomers and scientists have discovered a new structure
extending north and south of the galactic center. NASA and other
organizations have been combing our galaxy and beyond for
decades in search of new celestial bodies. Of course, with each
new discovery, more and more questions arise. And now, a team
of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing
has been studying a map of radioactive gamma rays that exist in
and around the center of our galaxy. Their results seem to indicate
that there is something near the galactic center creating an
abundance of cosmic rays and gamma rays just outside the
galactic center.
A team from China discovered (
https://bit.ly/3p2rzdp) that there
is something preventing a large amount of cosmic rays from other
things of the universe from reaching us. They describe this effect
as an invisible barrier that bends around the center of the galaxy
and leads to the fact that the density of cosmic rays in the region
of the Sun is much less than in the rest of our galaxy. Using data
from the Fermi Large Area Telescope, the researchers confirmed
that there is something at the center of the Galaxy that acts as an
extremely large particle accelerator. They speculate that it could
be Sagittarius A, or even the strong stellar winds generated by
the large number of stellar winds.
This strange barrier cuts off almost all stellar radiation and so
far there is no way to determine its origin. Some have suggested
that this may be due to the structures of magnetic fields near the
dense core of our galaxy. Research continues, and as more details
are revealed, scientists will be able to establish how the
topography of this strange barrier.
