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This artist’s impression shows the Milky Way as it may have appeared 6 million years ago during a “quasar” phase of activity. Outside of that bubble, a pervasive “fog” of million-degree gas might account for the galaxy’s missing matter of 130 billion solar masses.

Milky Way had blowout bash 6 million years ago

Missing mass found in a million-degree gaseous fog

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DateAugust 29, 2016