I always wondered where they get all the antimatter to power the starships in Star Trek. Maybe they get it from the centre of the galaxy. New results from NASA’s INTEGRAL spacecraft, which tracks gamma ray emissions, may have explained the origin of the cloyd of antimatter that seems to be hanging around the centre of the Milky Way, our galaxy.
Originally discovered in the 1970s, the giant cloud of antimatter is 10,000 light years across and gives off te energy of 10,000 Suns, only it shines in the gamma-ray part of the electromagnetic spectrum (it is shown above). Only, no one could explain how it got there, or how it continued to exists, when it ought to be annihilated by all the matter in the region.
It had been suggested that the cloud was the result of dark matter reacting either with itself, or with regular matter. INTEGRAL scientists have deduced the shape of the cloud however, and this has given them the vital clue to deducing the origins of the cloud. Also skewed the the right of the galactic centre are a certain type of binary star system, known as hard low-mass X-ray binaries. These produce positrons and there seem to be enough of them to “suggest that about half and possibly all the antimatter is coming from [the] X-ray binaries”.
I believe this article was misnamed. Our galaxy’s massive antimatter cloud (MAC) has been mapped, but under current theory it defies explanation. In fact, its very existence is paradoxical to the projections of old assumptions–a fact that the author points out when it is said, “no could explain how it got there, how it continued to exist, when it ought to be annihilated by all the matter in the region”–which happens to be the matter-densest region of space.
I am the author of a modern analysis that produced a model/explanation of MAC that explains all these observations. Not only that, the new model predicted the necessary existence of MAC before, I, the author, found out about the Integral mission. Essentially the MAC structure is necessary to block the gate-interface of the Milky Way’s supermassive black-hole. Without the MAC structure, there would have been nothing from stopping the entire galaxy from collapsing in upon itself.
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