Post by morningstar on Nov 16, 2019 16:36:46 GMT
I found these articles so interesting and linked them together. The Scientists may think it strange, but we know that the "strange and unseen" is no other than "God the Creator of the Universe".
Science Alert
Something Strange And Unseen Seems to Be Causing Distant Galaxies to Synchronise
https://www.sciencealert.com/something-strange-is-causing-distant-galaxies-to-synchronise?utm_source=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated
VICTOR TANGERMANN, FUTURISM
12 NOV 2019
Galaxies millions of light years away seem to be connected by an unseen network of massive intergalactic structures, which force them to synchronize in ways that can't be explained by existing astrophysics, Vice reports. The discoveries could force us to rethink our fundamental understanding of the universe.
"The observed coherence must have some relationship with large-scale structures, because it is impossible that the galaxies separated by six megaparsecs [roughly 20 million light years] directly interact with each other," Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute astronomer Hyeop Lee told the site.
There have been many instances of astronomers observing galaxies that seem to be connected and moving in sync with each other. A study by Lee, published in The Astrophysical Journal in October, found that hundreds of galaxies are rotating in exactly the same way, despite being millions of light years apart.
And a separate study, published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics in 2014, found supermassive black holes aligning with each other, despite being billions of light years apart.
While current cosmological principles support the alignment and movement of ancient stars at a smaller scale, astronomers are puzzled by the much, much larger patterns across vast distances.
But before they can draw any conclusions, they'll need more data - the body of work is still limited, as Vice points out.
SCIENTISTS: SOMETHING ABOUT THE UNIVERSE DOESN’T LOOK RIGHT
NOVEMBER 1ST 19__KRISTIN HOUSER
Constantly Changing
In July, we reported that scientists were having trouble nailing down the Hubble Constant, a number representing the speed at which our universe is expanding.
At that time, new research proposed the number was 69.8 kilometers per second per megaparsec (km/sec/Mpc), while various other scientists had previously calculated it to be 72, 73.5, or 74. Now, a team from the University of California at Davis has published its own research on the Hubble Constant — and it concluded the number is 77.
Need-To-Know Number
The problem with all these discrepancies is that we really need to nail down the Hubble Constant if we want to understand, well, almost anything about our universe.
“The Hubble constant is the cosmological parameter that sets the absolute scale, size, and age of the universe,” Wendy Freedman, the physicist who arrived at the 69.8 number, said in a July press release. “It is one of the most direct ways we have of quantifying how the universe evolves.”
Funny Business
Each of the above studies approached the Hubble Constant problem in a different way — Freedman, for example, examined red giant stars to arrive at her number, while the team behind the new UC Davis study used gravitational lens systems.
There’s a chance that most, if not all, of these teams simply miscalculated — after all, they’re dealing with a lot of variables that could throw off their measurements.
But as physicist Adam Riess told The Washington Post, there is another possibility: “No one’s wrong. Something else is going on in the universe.”
Fair Use for Discussion Purposes
Science Alert
Something Strange And Unseen Seems to Be Causing Distant Galaxies to Synchronise
https://www.sciencealert.com/something-strange-is-causing-distant-galaxies-to-synchronise?utm_source=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated
VICTOR TANGERMANN, FUTURISM
12 NOV 2019
Galaxies millions of light years away seem to be connected by an unseen network of massive intergalactic structures, which force them to synchronize in ways that can't be explained by existing astrophysics, Vice reports. The discoveries could force us to rethink our fundamental understanding of the universe.
"The observed coherence must have some relationship with large-scale structures, because it is impossible that the galaxies separated by six megaparsecs [roughly 20 million light years] directly interact with each other," Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute astronomer Hyeop Lee told the site.
There have been many instances of astronomers observing galaxies that seem to be connected and moving in sync with each other. A study by Lee, published in The Astrophysical Journal in October, found that hundreds of galaxies are rotating in exactly the same way, despite being millions of light years apart.
And a separate study, published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics in 2014, found supermassive black holes aligning with each other, despite being billions of light years apart.
While current cosmological principles support the alignment and movement of ancient stars at a smaller scale, astronomers are puzzled by the much, much larger patterns across vast distances.
But before they can draw any conclusions, they'll need more data - the body of work is still limited, as Vice points out.
SCIENTISTS: SOMETHING ABOUT THE UNIVERSE DOESN’T LOOK RIGHT
NOVEMBER 1ST 19__KRISTIN HOUSER
Constantly Changing
In July, we reported that scientists were having trouble nailing down the Hubble Constant, a number representing the speed at which our universe is expanding.
At that time, new research proposed the number was 69.8 kilometers per second per megaparsec (km/sec/Mpc), while various other scientists had previously calculated it to be 72, 73.5, or 74. Now, a team from the University of California at Davis has published its own research on the Hubble Constant — and it concluded the number is 77.
Need-To-Know Number
The problem with all these discrepancies is that we really need to nail down the Hubble Constant if we want to understand, well, almost anything about our universe.
“The Hubble constant is the cosmological parameter that sets the absolute scale, size, and age of the universe,” Wendy Freedman, the physicist who arrived at the 69.8 number, said in a July press release. “It is one of the most direct ways we have of quantifying how the universe evolves.”
Funny Business
Each of the above studies approached the Hubble Constant problem in a different way — Freedman, for example, examined red giant stars to arrive at her number, while the team behind the new UC Davis study used gravitational lens systems.
There’s a chance that most, if not all, of these teams simply miscalculated — after all, they’re dealing with a lot of variables that could throw off their measurements.
But as physicist Adam Riess told The Washington Post, there is another possibility: “No one’s wrong. Something else is going on in the universe.”
Fair Use for Discussion Purposes
