Over the last 35 years, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, an astronomy professor at the University of Chicago, has been studying strands of Cosmic Ray electrons stretching up to 150 light years across the center of the Milky Way.
With the help of his team, Yusef-Zadeh was able to find ten times more strands than before.
The team was able to get a panoramic view of almost 1,000 of these mysterious filaments using the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory MeerKAT telescope.
Yusef-Zadeh said in a statement that they have studied individual filaments for a long time.
It is a significant moment in his investigation.
It's difficult to draw a conclusion about what the structures are and where they came from.
The team made 20 separate observations over 200 hours to create the panorama. The resulting image is awe-inspiring, and similar to modern art, according to Yusef-Zadeh.
The team is willing to make educated guesses despite the advancement.
The variation in the radiation emitted by the filaments suggests they aren't the leftovers of supernovae, but the result of past activity of the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
This is the first time we have been able to study the statistical characteristics of the filaments. Magnetic fields are being amplified along the strands.
They are both at the same distance.
We don't know why they come in clusters or how they separate, and we don't know how these regular spacings happen.
He said that getting a full understanding will take time.
He said that every time we answer a question, there are other questions.
There are nearly 1,000 strands in the center of the universe.
Scientists were surprised by a mysterious barrier at the core of our galaxy.
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