From finding the ‘bubble of galaxies’ to physicists finally being able to ‘see’ inside short-lived nuclei, find all the latest news, discoveries and findings that happened in the field of science this week.
Billion-light-year-wide ‘bubble of galaxies’ discovered
Astronomers have discovered the first "bubble of galaxies," an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought to be a fossilised remnant from just after the Big Bang sitting in our galactic backyard. The bubble spans a billion light years, making it 10,000 times wider than the Milky Way galaxy. Yet this giant bubble, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, is a relatively close 820 million light years away from our home galaxy, in what astronomers call the nearby universe.
