Mitosis

What are the bubbles?

Purple.

Interesting

Ummm... reference?

Pi orbitals

Nov 09, 2010
WASHINGTON – NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy.
“What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend 25,000 light-years north and south of the galactic center,” said Doug Finkbeiner, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who first recognized the feature. “We don’t fully understand their nature or origin.”
https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasas-fermi-telescope-finds-giant-structure-in-our-galaxy/

Side-note: They're not actually purple...

This is from 2010. Here's a 2026 article. Spolier: we still don't know what exactly these are. Space. 🤯

https://science.nasa.gov/universe/stories/quick-reads/blowing-bubbles-in-the-gamma-ray-sky/

I liked this NASA article about them

Who took the picture?

I did.

Probably just a supermassive black hole that ate something which isn't as effected by gravity as we thought.

Oh, I know this one! They hold the camera with their chin against their neck. It's awkward, but that lets them have both balls in view.

Selfie stick

Those are p orbitals!

Someone at the center ate Taco Bell

Bollocks.

That's an easy one. It's the center pin because our galaxy is really one of these things.

https://www.amazon.com/Jishi-Twirlers-Classic-Magnetic-Fashioned/dp/B0B151NLB5?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&hvadid=79920961900410&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=56816&hvtargid=pla-4583520437418581&psc=1

Reminds me of the haidingers brush. Shows we are living in a fractal and everything repeats itself in slightly different form

Pink, then?

Purnk

this made me laugh, thanks