Earth's In A Giant Cosmic Tunnel That Connects Two Points, Study Claims

Are we in the universe's equivalent of a tunnel? If researchers are to be believed, Earth is situated in a magnetised tunnel which surrounds our solar system.

In a new study set to be published in Astrophysical Journal and recently uploaded on arXiv, researchers from Canada may have found the most plausible explanation for the presence of two extremely magnetic and huge structures that resembles ropes in the Milky Way galaxy.

Researchers from the University of Toronto's Dunlap Institute, National Research Council Canada and from the University of British Columbia believe that these filaments are space tunnels.

How did they do this??

Scientists established a link between "The North Polar Spur" and the "Fan Region", two gas structures in the sky that are known for emitting bright radio waves in the sky since they were discovered in the 1960s.

Dr. Jennifer West from the Dunlap Institute told Vice Motherboard that with this newly-discovered link, they hope to better understand the Milky Way galaxy.?These two space objects emit extremely strong magnetic radio waves which may not be seen by the human eye but are highly readable by a radio telescope.

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With help from a computer model, the scientists mapped out the length and position of both the structures to reach the conclusion that these objects are actually not separate, but are actually connected by a single tunnel-like structure.

Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto

Most earlier study of these objects has assessed them both as individual and separate objects. How did they even think of this idea? According to West, scientists looked at the Milky Way differently. They simply redrew the maps with a new perspective, which made the connection between the NPS and Fan Region easier to notice.

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Telescopes and computer models aided the realisation. Sure, it doesn't come close to physically experiencing the tunnel phenomenon, but we must make do with that as of now.??

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Citation

Carleton, A. (2021, October 18). The Earth Is Inside an Enormous Cosmic Tunnel, New Research Proposes. Vice.

West, et al. (2021). A Unified Model for the Fan Region and the North Polar Spur: A bundle of filaments in the LocalGalaxy.