Milky Way Had A Blowout Bash 6 Million Years Ago

Milky Way Had A Blowout Bash 6 Million Years Ago Boston MA (SPX) Aug 31, 2016 - The center of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black hole slumbers, only occasionally slurping small sips of hydrogen gas. But it wasn't always this way. A new study shows that 6 million years ago, when the first human ancestors known as hominins walked the Earth, our galaxy's core blazed forth furiously. The evidence for this active phase came from a search f ... more

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