Friday, November 14, 2025

The star formation near the center of the Milky Way surprises astronomers.




"New infrared observations from NASA’s retired SOFIA observatory have revealed a puzzling slowdown in massive star formation near the center of our Galaxy. Credit: Stock" (ScitechDaily, Scientists Puzzled by Strange Star-Forming Regions at the Milky Way’s Center)


The new observations about star formation in the center of the Milky Way are interesting. Star formation in our galaxy’s center is slower than at the edge of the galaxy. The reason for that. It can be the gravitational cross-pulling. And radiation from the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A, and stars around it. Star density near the center of the Milky Way. And other galaxies are higher than at their edge. 

That means the gravitational effect from stars around the protostars is much stronger than at the edge of the galaxy. In the center of spiral galaxies is a supermassive black hole. That black hole pulls material and quantum fields into it. That causes strong radiation and material flow. Together, those effects, along with the stronger gravitational effect from other stars, can rip protostars into pieces. Materia near the center of the spiral galaxies is hotter than their edge. That hot gas causes turbulence. 


And hot particles push each other away. And that can also deny the condensation of the material. If the protostar, or nebula that forms a protostar, is too hot, the free energy between those particles rips the nebula into pieces. That energy is mainly X-rays or gamma-rays, and thermal energy that forms.  In high-energy particle interactions. This thing denies the star formation. The nebula that forms the protostar must have a low temperature. Some kind of gravity center that starts to pack the nebula around it. 

Maybe that thing is the whirl that packs material into it. Then that material forms the protostar. The thing. That starts the nuclear fusion process. Friction in the protostar, along with density that is high enough, forms the conditions that make it possible to start the fusion. Things like supernova explosions and radiation, along with gravitational effects, can destroy the protostar before it reaches high enough density. So, near the center of the galaxy. Other stars that can pull those nebulae in every direction. Same way. The massive radiation effect can form a situation where those protostars will vanish. Because of the radiation. Turn them too hot for gravity. To keep them in their form. Or, maybe we should say. The radiation brings too much free energy into the protostar. And that breaks their form. 


https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-puzzled-by-strange-star-forming-regions-at-the-milky-ways-center/


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