Not exact matches
«We are now fully confident that one of the
most popular supernova remnants detected in our
galaxy was produced by an
ordinary type Ia supernova that was first detected more than 400 years ago,» write Andrea Pastorello of Queen's University Belfast and Ferdinando Patat of the European Southern Observatory in Germany in a commentary on the study.
The
most recent addition to the tour, discovered just last year, involves what appears to be a giant plume of antimatter — a fountain of particles identical to
ordinary matter except that they have the opposite electric charge — shooting up from the core and straight out of the disk of the
galaxy as far as 5,000 light - years, where the antimatter jet meets clouds of
ordinary matter, and both are annihilated in a burst of energy.
As stated in Scientific American, ``... the formation of «
ordinary» spiral and elliptical
galaxies is apparently still out of reach of
most redshift surveys.»
These filaments, spanning across millions of light - years — much larger than the largest
galaxies — constitute the cosmic web, and account for
most of the
ordinary matter (as opposed to dark matter) in the universe.