Your Ship Found a Buried Explosion Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole

[00:00:00]Your ship is entering the crowded center of the Milky Way, and the first thing you need to understand is this.

[00:00:06]That glowing cloud ahead is not just a pretty nebula.

[00:00:11]If you thought the explosion was over, that is the part space gets wrong.

[00:00:16]Chandra found evidence of a possible supernova remnant near Sagittarius C, close to the region around our galaxy's central black hole.

[00:00:24]And the signal is [music] not coming from a clean, empty shell.

[00:00:28]It is buried inside a larger cloud of gas, showing up as a strange blue X-ray blob that may be the remains of a massive star that destroyed itself.

[00:00:38]If this really is a supernova remnant, the debris is still expanding at about 2 million miles per hour, and the explosion may be at least 1,700 years old.

[00:00:49]So, your ship is [music] not flying past an event that happened once and disappeared.

[00:00:53]It is flying past a wound that is still moving through the center of the galaxy.

[00:00:57]>> [music] >> And that matters, because supernova remnants spread heavy elements like iron, oxygen, and silicon into space, the same ingredients future planets can use.

[00:01:09]So, comment this.

[00:01:11]Would you fly closer to study it, or turn the ship around before the instruments start screaming?

[00:01:16]Because near the Milky Way's black hole, even an old explosion does not feel dead.

[00:01:22]Follow for the next dark object NASA finds before the algorithm buries the signal.