Astronomers detect large waves that roll in the hearts of the Milky Way

The Milky Way, home to billions of stars including our sun, is not a spiral star that is imagined. Astronomers have found that it actually rustled like a vast ocean, with stars waves up and down thousands of light years above and under the galaxy field.

The revelation came from the Mission of the European Space Agency, which had mapped the position and movement of more than one billion stars. When the researchers analyzed the latest data, they saw an amazing pattern: colossal movements such as waves that sweep the Milky Way-Riak Disk Galaxy Proportion.

When astronomers continue to analyze data from Gaia, which stopped operations earlier this year, more discoveries were expected in the future. This new discovery is based on research conducted by European and American scientists and published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics earlier this year.

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“Interesting parts are not only visual appearance of the wave structure in 3D space, but also behaviors such as waves when we analyze the movements of the stars in it,” said Eloisa Poggio, an astronomer in Istituto Nazione in the first astrofisica and the author of the study, in a statement about the research.

Astronomers believe that ripples may have been triggered by a galaxy meeting of millions of years ago – maybe when a smaller galaxy or a dense dark material structure is hijacked through the Milky Way disk. The impact will send gravitational shock waves through stars, bending and turning the galaxy plane such as ripples in the pool.

These findings not only overturize the old view of the calmness of the Milky Way but also describe the picture of a living and anxious galaxy, still re-forming itself after ancient cosmic events.