Behind the Phantom Zone of the Milky Way.

The Milky Way is our galaxy, our home in the universe, it has a diameter of about 105,700 light years, although in 2018 Spanish and Chinese researchers discovered that its influence could extend up to 200,000 light years in diameter.

The sun is located about 25,766 light years from the galactic center, there is a supermassive black hole with about 4 million times the mass of the sun, our star is only one of the 200,000 million to 400 billion stars that the pathway contains milky, these are just a few of the many things that astronomers have been able to figure out in the last 50 years, but there is one that is not real and it is this image.

What we see is just an illustration, we assume that the Milky Way has the shape of a barred spiral, but it is only an estimate because I don't know, it is impossible to see the Milky Way in all its fullness, for this we would need to travel hundreds of thousands of light years towards up or down the galactic plane, it's like being in the middle of a forest and trying to get a complete picture of it, we can only see some of the trees that surround us, luckily in the cosmos we can look up and see other forests of stars.

In this way, we can compare what we know about the Milky Way with other galaxies that have similar structures and characteristics, even so, there is a phantom zone just behind the inside of the Milky Way, an area that we cannot see, astronomers also know it as the Milky Way zone. avoidance or empty zone, is an area that covers between 10% to 20% of the entire night sky.

We can't see through it because the core of the Milky Way is so dense that it blocks our view. There are so many stars and so many clouds of gas and dust that the light is scattered or blocked before reaching our telescopes, but that What happens to the light that our eyes see, there are other sources of radiation that have better luck getting through the phantom zone.

The researchers who are now in the news belong to an international team made up of astronomers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the Vatican City; who does not know, the Vatican has an astronomical observatory that is very active. And this international team of scientists has turned to infrared radiation to do its exploration, it is a type of emission that is invisible to our eyes but is capable of passing through clouds of gas and dust.

Infrared radiation is not something magical or strange, it surrounds us everywhere, the stars emit it, it represents 56% of the radiation we receive from the sun, you and I and all warm-blooded animals emit it, it is the light captured by the thermal cameras to see at night or in low visibility conditions.

Well, thanks to that infrared radiation, the team of astronomers has managed to see beyond the fog of the phantom zone and has detected a huge structure hidden behind the Milky Way. It is a galaxy cluster made up of at least 58 galaxies located about At 3 billion light-years, Galactic clusters are the largest gravitationally bound objects in the universe, at the moment it is not known what holds these galaxies together, nor how massive and wide the cluster could be.

The study has only been submitted for a few days in a peer review study, so it is possible that changes and corrections will emerge, but it is still a remarkable advance in the attempt to unravel the mysteries that exist beyond the zone phantom, we will need more infrared observations, Oh By the way you know who has a very powerful infrared camera because the James web space telescope, for this reason many astronomers wait anxiously for it to point towards the phantom zone, what secrets will the eye of the webb reveal to us.

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