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Pastafarians rejoice. Proof of His Noodly Magnificence.
[font size=3]Massive invisible 'noodles' detected in our galaxy. What are they?[/font]
Haven't had your mind blown in a while? Try this story on for size. Scientists have detected massive invisible structures in our galaxy that are shaped like noodles, lasagne sheets or hazelnuts, and they have no idea what they are, according to a recent news release.
The structures, which were lurking about 3,000 light-years away, are completely invisible, but scientists were able to catch a glimpse of their shapes by studying the lensing effect they had on a quasar called PKS 1939-315 in the constellation of Sagittarius. Those shapes were oddly irregular and difficult to describe.
"We could be looking at a flat sheet, edge on," said Dr. Cormac Reynolds, a member of the CSIRO team that performed the research. "Or we might be looking down the barrel of a hollow cylinder like a noodle, or at a spherical shell like a hazelnut." (CSIRO is Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, the federal agency for scientific research in Australia.)
Haven't had your mind blown in a while? Try this story on for size. Scientists have detected massive invisible structures in our galaxy that are shaped like noodles, lasagne sheets or hazelnuts, and they have no idea what they are, according to a recent news release.
The structures, which were lurking about 3,000 light-years away, are completely invisible, but scientists were able to catch a glimpse of their shapes by studying the lensing effect they had on a quasar called PKS 1939-315 in the constellation of Sagittarius. Those shapes were oddly irregular and difficult to describe.
"We could be looking at a flat sheet, edge on," said Dr. Cormac Reynolds, a member of the CSIRO team that performed the research. "Or we might be looking down the barrel of a hollow cylinder like a noodle, or at a spherical shell like a hazelnut." (CSIRO is Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, the federal agency for scientific research in Australia.)
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