[AFPhys]

The Milky Way is a perfectly ordinary spiral galaxy, except for a shortage of supernova activity.
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I don’t think I ever heard this before. Worth mulling over in a philosophical and religious sense, as well as a scientific sense, if this is accurate.

[neverdem]

I don’t think I ever heard this before. Worth mulling over in a philosophical and religious sense, as well as a scientific sense, if this is accurate.

The discovery helps fill in the deficit of supernovas for the Milky Way, where the rate of explosions appears much lower than in similar spiral galaxies.

"This lack is a significant puzzle," Reynolds said. Either astronomers have not been able to identify the remnants, or the Milky Way is somehow different.

Here's another reference to the Milky Way's relative dearth of supernovas, FWIW.