Giant magnetized outflows from the centre of the Milky Way

@article{Carretti2013GiantMO,
  title={Giant magnetized outflows from the centre of the Milky Way},
  author={E. Carretti and Roland M Crocker and Lister Staveley-Smith and Marijke Haverkorn and Cormac Purcell and Bryan M. Gaensler and Gianni Bernardi and Michael J. Kesteven and S. Poppi},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2013},
  volume={493},
  pages={66-69}
}
The nucleus of the Milky Way is known to harbour regions of intense star formation activity as well as a supermassive black hole. Recent observations have revealed regions of γ-ray emission reaching far above and below the Galactic Centre (relative to the Galactic plane), the so-called ‘Fermi bubbles’. It is uncertain whether these were generated by nuclear star formation or by quasar-like outbursts of the central black hole and no information on the structures’ magnetic field has been reported… Expand
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