Galactic bar paradox resolved in cosmic dance
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - 13:41
in Astronomy & Space
New light has been shed on a mysterious and long-standing conundrum at the very heart of our galaxy. The new work offers a potential solution to the so-called 'Galactic bar paradox', whereby different observations produce contradictory estimates of the motion of the central regions of the Milky Way.