Astronomers Hope a Mysterious Glow in the Milky Way Is What They Think It Is

For all the discoveries we’re making of faraway galaxies, we’re still struggling to fully understand our own galaxy, the Milky Way. For example, researchers have known for decades of an odd concentration of gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way, although they weren’t sure where the high-energy light was coming from.

A new study proposes an entirely new perspective—that the light may actually be coming from neutron stars, as astronomers have suspected. If not, however, this could…