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A non-thermal axially symmetric radio wake near the galactic center.

01 January 1987

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We have discovered a highly unusual radio source lying within 1 degree of the galactic center whose "cometary" morphology suggests that it is a wake produced by a radio source moving supersonically with respect to the ambient interstellar medium. Most galactic sources of nonthermal radio continuum radiation are supernova remnants which retain a degree of spherical symmetry.