Holes In Milky Way

Something is punching holes in our galaxy. And we don’t even know what it is.

Milky Way

Our universe has always been a topic of fascination, a strangeness. Even after thousands of years of our progress, we still know so little about Our universe. Forget universe, we do not know what lies beyond our own solar system. With discoveries and research, we found out But our universe has baffled itself in baffling us.

Milky way galaxy, the galaxy in which our solar system resides, has been the topic of study for far long by scientists, cosmologists. Yet we find something new related to it, totally astonishing.

Recently Dr. Ana Bonaca, studying Astrophysics in Harvard Centre, observed a hole in the continuous stream of stars aligning in GD1. To clarify, GD1 is a stellar star stream we observe when looking into our Milky Way galaxy. This GD1 stellar should be a single straight line. But there is a hole in it.

A hole so large, even the largest star we have discovered cannot encompass it. A hole so massive, millions of suns will not fill its void.

Such a hole in the galaxy with rigged ends itself is shocking. What's more baffling is that scientists have no definite answer to explain it.

Some theories revolve around the possibility of the hole being a massive black hole. But if it is a black hole, it would be as big as the one in the center of our galaxy. And at one point they both would collide, leaving the galaxy in titter batters. Well, then the doom is near.

Dark Matter

Another theory revolves around something called dark matter. A ball of dark matter might have collided with the stars and left a gap in its wake. This theory is the most plausible.

The matter we see, stars and planets make up only about 5% mass of the universe. Rest is presumed to be taken by Dark matter. And again we have no idea what that is. We know something like dark matter exists because we have seen light bend over invisible parts of our universe. And mass and gravity have the power to do so.

But all that is still speculation, we don't know what it was, the bullet that punched a hole in our galaxy.

That’s all for now, Later!