What Exactly Are These Mysterious Pulses Coming From The Milky Way

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At the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, our home, is a mysterious supermassive black hole. It’s shrouded in a vale of cosmic dust and gas and that curious spot just got a bit more strange, as experts say it’s starting to pulse.

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00:00at the center of the milky way galaxy our home is a mysterious supermassive black hole it's

00:08shrouded in a veil of cosmic dust and gas and that curious spot just got a bit more strange

00:14as experts say it's starting to pulse the black hole is called sagittarius a and astronomers at

00:20the national autonomous university of mexico have noticed that every 76.32 minutes on the dot

00:25the black hole pulses they say it's a gamma ray flux and it's in line with other pulses from the

00:30black hole in particular radio and x-ray emissions from around it so what does that mean well according

00:36to the astronomers it likely means something is orbiting the black hole at insane speeds the

00:41researchers note that the radio emissions pulse at nearly the exact same frequency and the x-ray

00:46emissions pulse at pretty much exactly twice the periodicity which they conclude is likely no

00:51coincidence sagittarius a is huge roughly 14.9 million miles across meaning that if something

00:57is orbiting it every 76 minutes it must be traveling at around 30 the speed of light it must also be

01:04close at around the same distance that mercury orbits our sun but what is it the astronomers

01:09believe it's likely a mass of hot gas one held together by a magnetic field

01:14believe it's possible if something is something thataptanners would be catching up and how we find a

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