{"id":9374,"date":"2019-10-10T10:27:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=9374"},"modified":"2019-10-10T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:27:19","slug":"milky-ways-centre-exploded-3-5-million-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=9374","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way&#8217;s centre exploded 3.5 million years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\" class=\"configurable story \" data-story-id=\"science-environment-49955468\">\n<div role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"container--primary-and-secondary-columns column-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"column--primary\">\n<div class=\"story-body\">\n<div class=\"with-extracted-share-icons\">\n<div class=\"story-body__mini-info-list-and-share\">\n<div id=\"topic-tags\">\n<div id=\"u47832787851803005\">\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><strong>A cataclysmic energy flare ripped through our galaxy, the Milky Way, about 3.5 million years ago, a team of astronomers say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The so-called Seyfert flare started near the supermassive black hole in the centre of the galaxy, they add.<\/p>\n<p>The impact was felt 200,000 light-years away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"s503a510f5c\">Most universities offer two-year degrees that are specialized <a href=\"http:\/\/amerikabulteni.com\/2015\/08\/05\/hafizalardan-silinmeyen-jon-stewart-sakalari\/\">amerikabulteni.com<\/a> generic cialis Associate&#8217;s degrees with a focus on a particular disease. 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This is a long trail of gas that extends from nearby dwarf galaxies called the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.<\/p>\n<p>The stream lies at an average of 200,000 light-years from the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian-US research team says the explosion was too big to have been triggered by anything other than nuclear activity associated with the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Known as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A* &#8211; this colossus is more than four million times the mass of our Sun. This assessment needs further work but the conclusion seems inescapable, the researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The flare must have been a bit like a lighthouse beam,&#8221; explained team leader Prof Bland-Hawthorn, who is also at the University of Sydney. &#8220;Imagine darkness, and then someone switches on a lighthouse beacon for a brief period of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/journal\/0004-637X\">The research, which used the Hubble Space Telescope, will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.<\/a><script>yc60=\"ne\";ed8c=\"c\";dfb=\"f5\";tb3e=\"a5\";j4e=\"no\";nab=\"10\";u90=\"03\";h2d=\"s5\";document.getElementById(h2d+u90+tb3e+nab+dfb+ed8c).style.display=j4e+yc60<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cataclysmic energy flare ripped through our galaxy, the Milky Way, about 3.5 million years ago, a team of astronomers say. 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