Mysterious Milky Way filaments have 'older, distant cousins'

Mysterious Milky Way filaments have ‘older, distant cousins’

Large-scale magnetic filaments pour down from the jet of a black hole, located in a distant cluster galaxy. Credit: Rudnick and collaborators, 2022 Northwestern University astrophysicist Farhad Zadeh has been fascinated and intrigued by a family of large-scale, highly organized magnetic filaments hanging from the center of the Milky Way since he first discovered them …

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