{"id":139369,"date":"2022-05-15T11:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T16:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/thousands-of-mysterious-strands-cross-through-the-center-of-our-galaxy"},"modified":"2022-05-15T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T16:02:20","slug":"thousands-of-mysterious-strands-cross-through-the-center-of-our-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/thousands-of-mysterious-strands-cross-through-the-center-of-our-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Mysterious Strands Cross Through the Center of Our Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thousands-of-mysterious-strands-cross-through-the-center-of-our-galaxy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of them are beautiful \u2014 they show up like harp-shaped strings next to each other,\u201d says Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University who led a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on the strands.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers are still unsure about the cause of these features in the cosmos. \u201cThe big question is: What is the origin of these filaments?\u201d Yusef-Zadeh says. \u201cThe puzzle is still there and the mystery continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One hypotheses suggests they might be related to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/the-sciences\/black-hole-at-heart-of-milky-way-imaged-for-first-time\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> captured in an image for the first time ever<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSome of them are beautiful \u2014 they show up like harp-shaped strings next to each other,\u201d says Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University who led a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on the strands. But researchers are still unsure about the cause of these features in the cosmos. \u201cThe big question [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}