<ul><li>NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory detected a fracture in a cosmic 'bone' in the Milky Way using radio data from MeerKAT radio array and the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array.</li><li>The fracture is believed to have been caused by an impact from a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star that emits radiation at regular intervals.</li><li>The 'bone' is actually a galactic center filament called G359.13, located 26,000 light-years from Earth and about 230 light-years long.</li><li>The fracture is speculated to have been caused by a high-speed collision with the pulsar, distorting the filament's magnetic field.</li></ul>

NASA diagnoses fracture in a 'huge cosmic bone' using X-ray observatory

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