Origin of Antimatter Cloud Discovered

Active Seti brings us news that astronomers have discovered the origin of an enormous antimatter cloud surrounding the galactic center. Data from the European Space Agency's "Integral" satellite indicated that the cloud's distribution is similar to that of a group of binary star systems containing black holes or neutron stars. From NASA's article: "The cloud itself is roughly 10,000 light-years across, and generates the energy of about 10,000 Suns. The cloud shines brightly in gamma rays due to a reaction governed by Einstein's famous equation E=mc^2. Integral found that the cloud extends farther on the western side of the galactic center than it does on the eastern side. Integral found certain types of binary systems near the galactic center are also skewed to the west. Because the two "pictures" of antimatter and hard low-mass X-ray binaries line up strongly suggests the binaries are producing significant amounts of positrons."

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Re:east/west???

[famebait]

Why is that any more stupid than eastern and western hemispheres of a planet?

Both designations are arbitrary, but once agreed on they are useful for
communicating, which is sort of what language is for. Just because _you_
don't often need to differentiate between far regions of the galaxy doesn't mean
astronomers don't, and have arranged it so they can.

Journalists strike again

[mapkinase]

Original article

As reported by an international team in the January 10 issue of Nature

Today is 11th of January and it is still not on the website. Obviously, the author of the article knows in advance about this publication.

What pisses me off is that he wrote about that in the past tense. Ordinary folks like myself who wanted just to read the peer-reviewed article, not their popularizing crap, are mislead to go there.

Is it that difficult to write "to be published" instead of "published"?

Rant off.