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http://gizmodo.com/a-dozen-black-holes-are-mysteriously-spewing-energy-in-1772855254Supermassive black holes, which are found at the center of nearly all galaxies, periodically erupt, hurling streams of energized plasma into intergalactic space. For instance our galaxys own supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, will sometimes swallow a star and belch x-ray energy all over the Milky Way. These eruptions are fascinating to astronomers, but they are typically thought to be independent events.
Now, a survey of 64 galaxies located halfway across the known universe has revealed a bizarre alignment between the energy jets erupting from a handful of black holes, all of which are located within a hundred million light years of each other. A pattern like this shouldnt exist, unless its being dictated by an even larger structure in our universe.
Which is exactly what Russ Taylor, lead author of a forthcoming study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, thinks may be happening. As Science News reports, Taylor suspects the eruptions are all being steered by filaments, a sort of scaffolding along which matter congregates on a cosmic scale. If the hypothesis is correct, it could help explain how our universes present structure came to be.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Response to Lizzie Poppet (Reply #1)
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LiberalArkie
(15,722 posts)universe in a large cell in a larger thing called an organ.......
Brother Buzz
(36,448 posts)An atom is a single solar system made up from a lot more stuff than just electrons, protons, and neutrons; stuff we don't even know yet.
That being said, I sleep well knowing I'm the center of my universe and the sun really does travel around me from my perspective if I choose too.
To infinity.....and beyond!
Photographer
(1,142 posts)But it's massively interesting.
Act_of_Reparation
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(1,142 posts)MyshkinCommaPrince
(611 posts)The black holes are far away. What we see happened a long time ago. I wish coverage of this sort of thing would use the correct verb tense.
That said, the matter is interesting.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Time is just the universe's trick to keep everything from happening at once.
Light has to travel, so technically nothing we see occurs in the present, or perhaps everything occurs in the present.
MyshkinCommaPrince
(611 posts)The difference being the time scales involved. So many people don't even know that what we see in the night sky represents past events. Clarity in science reporting could help casual readers have a better grasp of such things. Myself, I find such reports more interesting when I consider the mind-boggling distances and time frames that are involved. More people just prefer some sense of immediacy, maybe.
We don't really know how time works, I guess, so maybe everything could be happening in the present if all discreet moments coexist and consciousness creates the illusion of motion between them. Time as we know it is really consciousness of time? Something something, all dogs are blue now.
CrispyQ
(36,487 posts)Time keeps everything from happening at once & space keeps it from all happening to you.
librechik
(30,676 posts)Thunderbolts.com
has a lot to say about black holes and it makes more sense than the conventional wisdom.
Blue State Bandit
(2,122 posts)Proof that the aether exists.
They have a theory that actually works without the miracles required for conventional wisdom.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)librechik
(30,676 posts)NickB79
(19,257 posts)librechik
(30,676 posts)if the science is there, it will show itself.
But be sure to limit the scope of others reading. You want to make sure the orthodoxy always is on top! The earth is flat, after all...
Initech
(100,088 posts)Hey o!!!!!!
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)I expect it to land in the New Mexico desert any day now.....
Initech
(100,088 posts)marcopolo63
(64 posts)Trump will be talking about this as something his wall will guard us from I'm sure...
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)Thanks
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Honestly, I don't know why it takes scientists so long to figure out the obvious answers.
Lobo27
(753 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Coventina
(27,137 posts)wickerwoman
(5,662 posts)vkkv
(3,384 posts)it IS all illusion though.. you guys know that, right?
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)BTW no I'm not referring to our friends operating under Maastricht as loons. The Electric Universe types however...
NickB79
(19,257 posts)Oh boy.....