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THERE’S A BARRIER AROUND THE MILKY WAY’S CENTRE

he centre of the Milky Way may be even more bizarre than astronomer thought. A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing investigated a map of radioactive gamma rays – the highest energy form of light in the universe, which can arise when extremely high-speed particles called cosmic rays crash into

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