Astronomers Think They've Detected Antimatter Signals From Beyond The Milky Way For The First Time
The typical idea of antimatter that is just violently destroying matter everywhere is not the case in space. That escape was basically unexpected."The Magellanic Stream. (David L. The strongest signal reached 4 sigma, which means there's a roughly one-in-15,000 chance it emerged from a statistical fluctuation.
- ▪The typical idea of antimatter that is just violently destroying matter everywhere is not the case in space.
- ▪That escape was basically unexpected."The Magellanic Stream. (David L.
- ▪The strongest signal reached 4 sigma, which means there's a roughly one-in-15,000 chance it emerged from a statistical fluctuation.
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Astronomers Think They've Detected Antimatter Signals From Beyond The Milky Way For The First Time Space26 July 2026By Michelle Starr Add ScienceAlert on Google The 20-year 511 keV map from the INTEGRAL gamma-ray space telescope. (Yoneda et al., A&A, 2025) There's something wrong with the center of the Milky Way.For decades, astronomers have puzzled over a vast population of antimatter particles, or positrons, that collide with electrons to annihilate in flashes of gamma rays around the center of our galaxy.
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