Milky Way
Eastern philosophical schools have long believed that the human body is a microcosm. Now new research provides further evidence for this view.
According to the report published in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Lettersmost of the atoms that make up the human body likely spent millions of years being swept around the Milky Way on a cosmic “conveyor belt” until returning to our galaxy before the formation of the solar system. wall.
Specifically, the report suggests that the materials that make up life in the universe, except for hydrogen, helium and a few other exceptions, do not stay still after being tempered and dispersed through supernova explosions. pure.
Instead, these elements rely on cosmic currents called “perigalactic vehicles” to leave the Milky Way and enter intergalactic space.
After a while, they returned to their homeland and became the material to create new stars as well as planets, suns and even humans.
“Imagine the cosmic jet like a giant train: it regularly pushes material out into a galaxy before pulling it back in,” said team member Samantha Garza, a graduate student. from the University of Washington (USA).
The existence of a “galactic orbital vehicle” was discovered in 2011 thanks to the Hubble telescope.
However, it took until now for researchers at the University of Washington to prove that carbon atoms and some atoms that make up life can use the above means to leave the Milky Way and return.
