Author: Shyam Balaji, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Physics, King's College London

Susan Stolovy (SSC/Caltech) et al., NASA SPitzer/IRAC Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, appears to be ionised (meaning it is electrically charged because it has lost electrons) […]