There are 10 times more of these structures than we realized — and their source remains a mystery.
Researchers gazing into the center of the Milky Way with one of the world's largest radio telescope arrays have discovered thousands of mysterious strand-like structures never seen before.
These structures, known as radio filaments, jut out of the galactic center in long, thin tendrils — some of which stretch up to 150 light-years long, or nearly 40 times the distance between Earth and the nearest next-door star system, Proxima Centauri. Some filaments come in pairs, others in…
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