Each lobe is 25,000 light-years tall and the whole structure may be only a few million years old.
Are the bubbles remnants of a massive burst of star formation? Leftovers from an eruption by the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's center? Or or did these forces work in tandem to produce them? Scientists aren't sure yet.
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