The galaxy containing the Earth is punctured: The culprit causes shivers!

Scientists have discovered that there are spots in our Milky Way galaxy that look like wormholes, long, thin tunnels.

Research just published in Astronomy & Astrophysics says that these mysterious and giant holes could be the remains of supernovas, "evil imprints" that could help record the history of galaxies containing galaxies. Earth and its stars.

Map of neutral atomic hydrogen in the Milky Way galaxy

Supernovas are the final explosions of stars. As a star like our Sun ages, it will gradually run out of energy, followed by a final expansion as it dies, turning into a red giant. The star will then collapse into a "zombie" form, a white dwarf, an object about the size of Earth but still as massive as the Sun.

After a while, the white dwarf continued to collapse again: Exploding brilliantly in a supernova event, releasing many elements, including rare ones. Matter from these supernovas may continue to regenerate in other star systems.

But first, the supernova leaves gaps long after it explodes.

This is an accidental finding from the study of neutral atomic hydrogen spilling over the Earth-containing galaxy, HI4PI, led by Dr. Juan Diego Soler from the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF). .

Neutral hydrogen is the basic material in clouds of diffuse matter where young star systems can form, and what supernovas give back so much when they explode and old stars die. away, in the form of fine, hollow, gaseous "hairs" that are up to 33,000 light-years long.

The findings could set the stage for future probes with a mission to reconstruct the history of the Earth-containing galaxy and how it evolved to the present day. Above all, the research also points to the principle of "life begins with death" in the universe.

"The alignment of supernovae is very effective at maintaining turbulence and lifting gas in a stratified disk. Finding these filamentous structures in atomic hydrogen is an important step in understanding. process responsible for galactic-scale star formation" - Sicence Alert quoted astronomer Patrick Hennebelle from the Saclay Center for Nuclear Research - France, a member of the research team.