Gamma-ray bubbles have been detected around the Milky Way for a few years. Why are they there?

An unexpected discovery

In 2010, the Fermi telescope discovered two huge bubbles either side of the Milky Way Galaxy. This was in the Gamma-Ray aspect of the electromagnetic spectrum. To this day, mainstream scientists don’t understand what these structures are caused by.

In falling debris?

Early ideas suggested that this could have been an ancient explosion. But these gas cloud bubbles are still moving so some people think they represent material which fell into the black hole at the centre of the galaxy before being accelerated away to almost the speed of light.

Further resolution of the image provides clues. We can now see bipolar jets, one of the hallmarks of The Black Hole Principle.

The Solution

The gamma-ray jets are being produced by the central black hole at the speed of light and particles are also being accelerated at near-light speeds.

Reports that similar bubbles are being found around our nearest neighbour, Andromeda. So this type of pattern is possibly normal. This is to be expected in The Black Hole Principle.

The mystery of the Fermi bubbles is now solved: it is The Black Hole Principle in action.