The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is unlike most of the galaxy. Almost 80 percent of the Milky Way's dense gas is held there, packed into frigid clusters called molecular clouds. Gases ...

The study explores unusual chemical reactions in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way, where scientists have ...

the platinum catalyzes a reaction that ionizes the gas. Ionization breaks the hydrogen atom down into its positive ions (hydrogen protons) and negative ions (electrons). Both types of ions are ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided new insights into a galaxy that seems to clear the fog surrounding the early universe. This finding not only ...

"The biggest problem this model helps solve is an excess of ionization in the CMZ," Balaji told Space.com. "Cosmic rays, the usual culprits for ionizing gas, don't seem to be strong enough to ...

These newly produced charged particles can subsequently ionize the hydrogen gas. Previous attempts to explain this ionization process had relied on cosmic rays, fast and energetic particles that ...

This causes the gas to fragment into substances like nitric ... To investigate this process, Dinger's team studied the "electron-impact ionization cross-section" of N₂O, which measures the ...

This process would explain the abundant presence of ionized gas in the CMZ, a dense and turbulent region at the heart of the Milky Way. Unlike cosmic rays, often invoked to explain ionization, this ...

is very sensitively affected by the vapours of organic substances, and this effect can be used for detection purposes in gas chromatography.