Ana Bonaca: Galactic bullet holes

Wunderdog by Øystein Runde

Mar 6, 202201:04:49Science & Medicine

While studying the stellar stream GD-1, Harvard astronomer Ana Bonaca made a literally enormous discovery: Cosmic "bullet holes" in our galaxy, several light years across. Something with around a million times the mass o...

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