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Q: Is it true that a black hole isn't a hole at all?

Watch a TV show on this fact.

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I heard a blackhole was detected by a drunk foreign junkie in a sleazy bar carpark somewhere in Shanghai.

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was it a Burger King car park ?

 


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I won't tolerate much longer all this disregard toward my "black discoveries.." , i.e. B.holes-Life-Matter ...

 

I wanted to say, you were all created by the outer space advanced intelligence ... 

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Not as high falootin as BK

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Mama-ibex defies gravity .. with baby-ibex, for the salt deposits in the dam's wall ... .. i.e. free rock climbing

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn1FJzc

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Why you asking people on here for? People on here can barely figure how to get a visa for china let alone how a black hole works.

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any question is ok these days on this forum

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Any question I guess is fine, just curious why? I mean its like if i went to cooking recipe website and asked them how to change the transmission in my car.

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'Black hole' is a characteristical term used in English, earthy language. angel

 

It is resemblance of happening in the Universe ..., i.e. strong gravity that nothing can escape ...

 

'Black hole' in Universe and 'black hole' on golf course are two very different things ... 

 

I guess, TV is assembled in the framed hole ...

 

I prefer to watch washing machine's cycles over the TV ...

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https://science.howstuffworks.com/antarcticas-spooky-cosmic-rays-might-s...

 

Antarctica's Spooky Cosmic Rays Might Shatter Physics As We Know It

 

Something strange is happening above the frozen landscape of Antarctica.

When scientists launched a science balloon mission called the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) over the continent in 2006, a cosmic ray pinged off one of its instruments. That isn't so strange. Cosmic rays fly from deep space all the time, and ANITA can detect them and measure their energies. But on this occasion, the cosmic ray didn't come from above, it came from below. This high-energy particle had emerged from the ice and traveled upward through the atmosphere. That's not something that cosmic rays are supposed to do.

During another ANITA flight in 2014, it happened again.

Cosmic rays come from some of the most energetic places in the universe — from supernovas to the swirling maws of black holes. To see a cosmic ray emerge from the earth suggests that this particle traveled from deep space and passed right through the planet before emerging on the other side. According to physics, however, this is impossible.

The thing with cosmic rays, which are high-energy protons and atomic nuclei, is that they have large cross-sections. In other words, they have no problem interacting with matter. Should a cosmic ray hit the Earth, it will be stopped in its tracks by the atmosphere, like a bullet hitting a cinderblock. Conversely, neutrinos have very small cross-sections, meaning these ghostly particles zip through matter as if it weren't even there. Neutrinos are so weakly interacting with matter that trillions of them pass through our bodies unimpeded every second. But the particles that ANITA detected were not neutrinos, they were (what appear to be) cosmic rays, and they passed straight through our planet as if it weren't even there. Frankly, these cosmic rays are not normal.

Now researchers have revisited these ANITA events in a study submitted in September 2018 and found three similar detections of upward-moving cosmic rays in another Antarctica experiment called IceCube, a particle detector that's buried in the ice. They've arrived at an astonishing conclusion: These aren't regular, Standard Model cosmic rays; they could be evidence of exotic physics.

Exotic physics refers to physics that we don't currently understand, and scientists refer to it as "physics beyond the Standard Model." The Standard Model is a recipe book of sorts that tells the universe how subatomic particles (from electrons to photons to quarks) should behave. When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) discovered the Higgs boson in 2012 — the particle that endows matter with mass — the Standard Model was complete; the theoretical framework that describes all interactions down to subatomic scales had been wrapped up.

There was, however, a problem. In fact, there were several. The Standard Model does not explain what dark matter and dark energy are. It also cannot explain why the majority of the universe is made from matter rather than antimatter. There's also the question of neutrino mass — the Standard Model falls short there, too. There are many mysteries that cannot be explained by the Standard Model recipe book, so physicists are hard at work trying to find evidence for a recipe book that's governing the universe in the shadows.

Maddeningly, the most complex experiments on Earth have yet to find any conclusive evidence of this shadowy realm, though there are clues. And, according to the researchers investigating the ANITA and IceCube anomalies, these cosmic ray detections may have opened a window into physics beyond the Standard Model, providing evidence of particles that look like cosmic rays and yet don't behave like cosmic rays.

"[U]nder conservative extrapolations of the [standard model] interactions, there is no particle that can propagate through the Earth [...] at these energies and exit angles. We explore here whether "beyond the Standard Model" particles are required to explain the ANITA events, if correctly interpreted, and conclude that they are," the researchers write in their study.

"Supersymmetry" (or SUSY) is one hypothetical exotic physics recipe book that may help explain what's going on. This hypothesis suggests that all the particles we know and love have SUSY particles (aka "sparticles"). These sparticles would provide balance to the Standard Model and may explain some of the mysteries that are confounding physicists and cosmologists. Could these phantom cosmic rays actually be a whole different type of particle emerging from supersymmetry?

It's too early to tell, and more data is needed, but it's tantalizing to think that we may have accidentally glimpsed physics beyond the Standard Model at the most extreme location on Earth.

 

 

 

 

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People online are pointing to this and talking about parallel universes and things. I don't know enough about that to put forward any opinion but imagine if it turned out to be true.. like 2020 wasn't a hell of a year already.

 

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That was posted at Zero, first! Parallel universe, where time goes backward ...

 

I was laughing at the comments ... there,  when I was suddenly 5-years old ... again. 

Here it is:

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/scientists-discover-evidence-parallel-universe-where-time-flows-backward

 

I saw the same article at the Oz News, butT ... only on the next day.

 

I fancy the topic 'cause Earth's physical laws don't apply elsewhere in universe ...

However, it's kind of heavy topic.

 

Universe is too big for humans to be the only one ... IMO, so whatever will come it will come.

I am simpleton and not scared easily. I can laugh even at the rainy weather ...

If you look at the animals, who are all no.2 comparable to primates ... one nice sunny day, the wheel might turn ... and primates will take no.2 spot, after the big shinny UFO's landing ...

Moreover, it might landed LTA and we are all unaware of manipulations ...

When I was DD-ing Gobekli Tepe, I came across some read about the real purpose of Gobekli, i.e. why and by whom it was built 11 000-years ago, and one 'option' was ''advanced outer space civilization built it for directing/sending waves to the home planet in other galaxies."

Apparently, since they lack of sun there, all their energetic needs come from the gold (metal), which was in abundance on Earth ... I read also about some reasons of destroying today's Syria, Iran & Iraq, i.e. Mesopotamia. 'cause advanced civilization left proof of landing ...

Key word was 'Annuaki' or something similar.

Some Syrian's artifacts are describing it in ancient language ... written on papyrus.

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Russians-did-it denial of parallel universe with the time flows backward ...

 

https://www.rt.com/news/489519-no-parallel-universe-antarctica-time-backwards/

 

What was surprising about the findings was that, even as early as this month, a Russian study had results which indicated“that high-energy neutrinos are born in active galactic nuclei.” So, the fact that ANITA detected a handful of neutrinos coming from inside the Earth’s interior runs directly counter to our current understanding of the origins of these particles. This led to excited reports of a parallel universe to our own.

The possible existence of parallel universes came into being via quantum physics, a theory in physics that attempts to describe the fundamental properties of nature at an atomic level. Examining physics at this scale has birthed many strange discoveries over the years. If you shoot a single electron through a double slit, for example, you will know only the likelihood of where it will land, not the exact location, leading to theories that would usually be thought outside the realms of possibility.

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Quantum physics is something I can't wrap my head around but I like reading about some of the trippy studies that are being done, it makes me pretty sure we know nothing about how things really work.

 

Did you ever read about that two slot experiment you mentioned? That's a real head scratcher.

 

 

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It's "double-slit experiment" not 'slot' ... 

 

Out-of-this world text:

 

https://plus.maths.org/content/physics-minute-double-slit-experiment-0

 

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a22280/double-slit-experiment-even-weirder/

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

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Don't tell anybody ... butT ... I heard voices ... and signals ...

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/06/03/four-mysteriou...

 

Four ‘Mysterious Signals From Outer Space’ Are Coming From Galaxies Like Ours, Say Scientists

 

Go outside on a hot day and feel the Sun on your skin. Now imagine how much energy our Sun emits in an entire human lifetime.

Compress all that energy into a single burst lasting a mere millisecond and you’ll understand why fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the hottest topics in astronomy.

First discovered in 2007 at Australia’s Parkes radio telescope, FRBs are very brief, very bright single radio pulses that can last for several milliseconds. It’s estimated that several thousand per day are occurring over the entire sky.

The most famous one is FRB 121102, unusual because it’s been detected a few hundred times since it first “burst” onto the scene in 2014. FRB 121102 is coming from a small dwarf galaxy about three billion light-years from Earth.

So what’s causing them? Colliding stars? Supermassive black holes? Radio broadcasts from a distant alien civilization?

Well, it’s not black holes, according to Dr. Shivani Bhandari, an astronomer with CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, whose new research published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters reveals that four FRBs are coming not from the heart of galaxies, but from their edge.

 

“These precisely localised fast radio bursts came from the outskirts of their home galaxies, removing the possibility that they have anything to do with supermassive black holes,” said Dr. Bhandari. Her team found the exact location of four new fast radio bursts—FRB 180924, FRB 181112, FRB 190102 and FRB 190608—by zooming-in on the radio sky using a detector on the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope in outback Western Australia.

Follow-up observations were made using some of the world’s largest optical telescopes, including Gemini South, the Very Large Telescope, Magellan Baade, Keck and the LCOGT-1m.

Although all of the four FRBs are coming from three or four billion light-years away, all were discovered to be coming from massive galaxies that are forming new stars at a modest rate, much like our own Milky Way.

“Just like doing video calls with colleagues shows you their homes and gives you a bit of an insight into their lives, looking into the host galaxies of fast radio bursts gives us insights to their origins,” said Dr. Bhandari.

The findings brings astronomers a step closer to understanding the origins of these mysterious signals from outer space.

As well as not being from black holes, the FRBs could also not have come from very bright explosions of stars or from cosmic strings, say the researchers, but could be from mergers of white dwarf stars or neutron stars.

Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.

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3 or 4 billion light years away... It's hard to wrap your head around distances like that, or that 3 billion light years is probably quite close in space terms.

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It certainly defines English Past Tense ... well .. 

 

See comments here:

 

‪Not Alone? Four "Mysterious Signals" Captured From Outer Space

 

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"The search for intelligent life should begin in Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, D.C., New York, Minneapolis."

 

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Lol, yeah that's some serious past tense for sure.

 

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... orrr ... some math:

 

 

The simplest living cell has 300 proteins. The TIME necessary to create even one protein, made from a 150 amino acid chain, by random selection has not yet passed in the entire 13 billion year-old estimated age of our universe.  Believe what you want to believe, but random chance evolution is an impossibility.

 

The math is definitely against the theory of evolution. But maff is hard, and evolution is supposed to be 'settled science' and thus more than a (defective) theory.

On the other hand, I could definitely believe in genetic devolution, wherein genetic defects accumulate over time and degrade the organism.

 

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Reading the news every day has me convinced devolution is definitely a thing.

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She is the lassiest lassie of all female PMs ... 

 

Yeah, while evolution is no-go 'cause of the math ... then the other option is de- ...

 

I have fresh one ... I just read it ...

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/covid-19-has-properties-have-never-been-found-nature

 

Norwegian and British vaccine scientists have published unequivocal evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, is man-made.

The authors state two conclusions: (1) the mutations that would normally be seen in the course of animal to human transmission have not occurred in SARS-CoV-2, indicating that it was fully “pre-adapted” for human infection and (2) SARS-CoV-2 has insertions in its protein sequence that have never been detected in nature and contribute to its infectivity and pathogenicity.

 

more ...

 

 

 

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Weblink reads 'free Ardern ...'

 

https://www.rt.com/newsline/491184-new-zealand-free-ardern/

 

PM Ardern ‘dances for joy’ although ‘job is not done’ as she declares New Zealand free of coronavirus

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 PM Ardern ‘dances for joy’ although ‘job is not done’ as she declares New Zealand free of coronavirusNew Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern. © Reuters / Yiming Woo / File Photo

 

New Zealand lifted all social and economic restrictions except border controls after declaring it was free of the coronavirus. “While the job is not done, there is no denying this is a milestone,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told reporters on Monday.

Public and private events, the retail and hospitality industries and all public transport were allowed to resume without the distancing rules still in place across much of the world.

Ardern said she had done a “little dance” when she was told there were no more active Covid-19 cases in New Zealand. “We are confident we have eliminated transmission of the virus in New Zealand for now, but elimination is not a point in time, it is a sustained effort,” the PM said.

The country has reported 1,154 infections and 22 deaths since the virus arrived in late February. “We will need to move cautiously here. No one wants to jeopardize the gains New Zealand has made,” Ardern said.

 

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Brits ... are hearing ..., too ...

 

 https://www.rt.com/news/491249-astronomers-radio-burst-cycle/

 

Long-distance calls? Scientists uncover repeating ‘157-day pattern’ in mysterious intergalactic radio bursts 

 

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A DISTURBANCE IN THE FOrce There is - Sad yoda - quickmeme

Updated : Who changed my post?

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Her best photos are always posted at RT or Zero ... At Yahoo-gle, they stick anything on ...

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I saw open pic only the first time right  after you posted ... and then it was only sign, but Yoda wouldn't open.

 

Why don't you try again with the same pic? I'd say, if it get closed the 2nd time, we can be sure somebody is editing.

 

I would say, it's most likely software flaw. Until I read your " ... who changed it .." I thought is my lousy broadband.

 

I'll look again through Opera ... and I'll let you know ... wait!

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This how your pic comment look through Opera:

 

A DISTURBANCE IN THE FOrce There is - Sad yoda - quickmeme

Updated : Who changed my post?

 

... and through TOR is just text without pic's sign:

 

A DISTURBANCE IN THE FOrce There is sad yoda quickmeme

Updated : Who changed my post?

 

I guess, TOR has some problems with Windows and at Opera my internet doesn't open the Yoda pic.

Your Yoda post wasn't edited ... but, I guess if you want to see it through the phone, it won't open. Through Opera Yoda pic opens ...

 

 

 

 

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Weird, no other pic I've posted has had a problem as far as I know and it was there for a day at least I think before it disappeared.

 

Cant be bothered posting it again, not like it was anything important anyway.

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It didn't disapperead. It's still there. If you see the difference between c&p your comment ... At Opera there is small sign hanging on the first 'A' and on TOR there's just a text.

That small sign is pic's sign, but my internet is too weak to open it.

 

I guess, if I go to library and use stronger wi-fi, pic will open. Sometimes, it wouldn't open pic 'cause it's too large. On that Koala thread, my last post should be Jacinda's pic, but pic is too large and it's displayed on the top of the thread and last post has just weblink.

It wasn't edited ...

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Yep, I see that little symbol now. A windows laptop, tablet and phone.. none of them show the pic now but it was there before. No big deal mate, just computers doing their weird computer thing. It happens.

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Yes, black exist in the universe. And there were more than one black hole in the outer space of galaxy.

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This one went missing ... and I thought I didn't count it right ... Researchers detect pulsing rhythm from supermassive BLACK HOLE 600 million light years away

Heart of darkness: Researchers detect pulsing rhythm from supermassive BLACK HOLE 600 million light years away

Scientists have rediscovered the ‘heartbeat’ from a supermassive black hole 600 million light years away, after it went missing for several years.

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 Hoooo-rraaahhh ...  we ... did it ... 

 

https://www.rt.com/news/491516-iss-astronauts-create-fifth-state-of-matter/

 

Astronauts on board the International Space Station have created a rare state of matter in ways not possible here on Earth.

 

A new study published in the magazine Nature suggests that scientists have used a small facility called the Cold Atom Lab (CAL) to create rare Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), also known as the fifth state of matter.

The CAL is capable of chilling atoms in a vacuum down to temperatures one 10-billionth of a degree above absolute zero – lower than in interstellar space. That’s why CAL – the size of a bedside table – has a reputation for being one of the coldest spots in the known universe.

 

BECs occur when the temperature of an ensemble of atoms almost reaches zero. These gaseous clouds of atoms then act collectively, rather than individually. First predicted by Albert Einstein and Indian mathematician and physicist Satyendra Nath Bose 95 years ago, they weren’t observed in a lab until 1995.

The reason why it was essential to make BECs in space is that, on Earth, gravity pulls them to the ground, making them disappear within fractions of a second. When created in the microgravity of space, however, BECs last longer – the atoms slow down and their wavelengths align, allowing us to study them for longer.

“It was recognized early on that microgravity would come in handy, and that going to space would give us a lot of advantages in terms of measurement time,” David Aveline, the lead author of the study and a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, told Business Insider.

 

In the past, scientists have conducted some pretty rudimentary tests to achieve microgravity here on Earth – including using a specially constructed tower at the University of Bremen’s Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, where researchers drop objects from tall heights to simulate the state.

With the CAL, BECs can be generated “amazingly quickly,” Maike Lachmann, who participated in the experiment, told German magazine Welt der Physik (World of Physics). This is because with the CAL, “you don’t have to cool large bodies, just a tiny atomic cloud,” meaning the entire process takes roughly two seconds.

 

The success of the CAL experiment could mark the first step in BECs becoming the basis of ultra-sensitive instruments that can detect the faintest signals from the most unknown aspects of our universe, such as gravitational waves and dark energy.

Aveline also told MIT that BECs have more practical applications, which “range from accelerometers and seismometers to gyroscopes.” 

Whatever the outcome of the study, the existence of CAL means that scientists can continue to get funky with how they experiment with atoms. Watch this space.

 

 

 

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OP never came back ..., but we are every day inching closer ...

 

There could be up to 6 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way according to explosive new research

There could be up to 6 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way according to explosive new research

Using a groundbreaking new model, scientists have calculated that there may be up to six billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy, reviving hopes that colonization among the stars may still, one day, be viable.

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Space-time ripples flip our understanding of black holes & neutron stars upside down

Space-time ripples flip our understanding of black holes & neutron stars upside down

The gravitational wave that washed over earth last year left scientists all the world over puzzled about its source. Now the mystery may have been solved, and any one of its potential implications is astonishing. Jun 23, 2020 20:14

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Black hole merger in deep space suggests universe’s darkest beings can create light

Black hole merger in deep space suggests universe’s darkest beings can create light

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Analysis of a collision between two black holes in a distant region of space has revealed the existence of light, the first time such an association has been made with the phenomenon.

The merging of the two cosmic beasts was reported after a gravitational wave dubbed S190521g was detected in May 2019 by the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) facilities in the US and the Virgo observatory in Italy.

Gravitational waves are caused by objects moving at very high speeds, such as when two black holes orbit and then merge with one another. Significant gravitational waves signal a curvature in space-time.

Remarkably, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) at the Palomar Observatory in California, had its telescope focused on the same region of space at the same time – and detected an explosive flare in the vicinity.

The research, published in astrophysics journal Physical Review Letters on Thursday, is the first record of light being associated with the collision of black holes.

The revelation could help prove the existing theory that black hole mergers occur regularly in regions of material known as ‘accretion disks’ surrounding supermassive black holes. Prior to the discovery, black holes were thought to merge in stellar graveyards, where there is little gas or dust that can heat up and glow.

“The expectation has always been that there would be no electromagnetic counterpart” to the merger’s gravitational-wave signal, Matthew Graham, principal scientist at ZTF and first author on the study, explained to a CNET.

However, with the existence of a flare and therefore light – which is a form of electromagnetic radiation – it seems that this assumption is incorrect, and that black holes can and do exist in regions with matter that can be heated or lit up.

Accretion disks are intense environments filled with gas, dust, stars and black holes. The research team believed that it was in such a location that the pair of black holes merged, an act that disturbed the surrounding space dust and debris and caused the flare as a result.

"The new merged black hole gets this kick and there's material dragged along with that. [It] slams into this gaseous environment around it and you get a shock front – that's the initial cause of the flare," Graham told CNET.

The LIGO/Virgo collaboration is yet to confirm what type of colossal cosmic event occurred but that, if it was as the researchers suspect, the merged black hole’s mass would now sit at around 150 solar masses, which would be the largest ever recorded.

 

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https://www.rt.com/news/493015-hubble-spots-cosmic-bat-space-video/

 

Hubble telescope spies cosmic ‘bat’ flapping its wings in the depths of space (VIDEO)

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Have you ever been to Guizhou? .. like me ...?

Here are some pics from the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Guizhou ...

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In a development that could finally shed light on dark matter, an international team of scientists have detected neutral hydrogen atoms, from a galaxy other than our own, for the very first time.

The finding came thanks to the enormous Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), which sits in a hilly, green natural basin in southwest China’s Guizhou Province.

The researchers detected the hydrogen coming from three extragalactic galaxies with only five minutes of exposure, a feat that demonstrates the exceptional sensitivity of the telescope. It is the first time neutral hydrogen from outside the Milky Way has been detected.

“With measurements of neutral hydrogen and carbon monoxide, scientists can estimate the dynamical mass of galaxies at different radii, and they can further study the distributions of baryons [a type of subatomic particle] and dark matter,” explained Dr Cheng Cheng, first author of the research.

Dark matter is a form of matter that’s believed to account for 85 percent of the matter in the universe but it has yet to be detected directly, despite the best efforts of researchers. Finding it would finally solve one of science’s most head-scratching mysteries.

The breakthrough FAST observation indicates the contribution of dark matter and illustrates the potential to study the mysterious matter in galaxies through neutral hydrogen.

Detecting extragalactic neutral hydrogen is one of the enormous telescope’s chief goals and it’s made possible through the massive size of the single-dish. As well as being the world’s largest filled-aperture radio telescope, it is the second-largest single-dish telescope after Russia’s RATAN-600.

The 1.2-billion-yuan ($170 million) machine, nicknamed Tianyan (meaning ‘Eye of Heaven’), is made up of approximately 4,400 aluminium panels and has more than 2,000 winches which allow it to be pointed at different parts of the sky.

Dr Cheng said the team is applying for more FAST observation time to further study the neutral hydrogen properties.

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This question has become racist since it was asked. Since that time, everything has become racist though.

icnif77:

I also resist to rasist ... Qs

 

 

I know, I have non-native (pajee) English accent.

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'Racism is like ketchup. You can put it on virtually anything. Then, when you demand evidence of it, you are called a racist.'

 

Thomas Sowell

 

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Colored people can never lay on the beach for no reason at sunny ... like whites do.

 

  eii-nee-kuaa-lii-ti ...

 

Some more ... from the  Evolution theory ...

 

Man-is-two-headed-primate ...

 

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 How do you mean 'everything ...'? 

 

Leaving tire marks on the road is now a hate crime

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See comments here ... on raisist terms ... while discussin' black holes ..., i.e. Comedy Central ..

 

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African-American hole ... 

 

Black ho .... 

 

Black Holes Matter ....

 

Only non-raisist term permitted in US English is 'dark hole' ... one dark skin gentleman told me ... 

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Scientists at Harvard University have developed a new method to hunt down black holes beyond our galaxy which may finally figure out what is going on with the oft-theorized but never-witnessed ‘Planet Nine.’

 

The method will make use of the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) mission, which is expected to begin operations in mid-2022. Using a tennis-court-sized mirror and a 3,200-megapixel camera, the researchers will seek out accretion flares, which shoot out of disrupted comets as they are stretched apart by black holes.

 

 

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Space rocks pulled in by the incredible gravitational force of a black hole melt long before they reach the event horizon, owing to the heat emitted by background accretion – that is, the stretching out – of gas and other material on its doorstep. On melting, these small bodies, such as asteroids, comets and whatever other material was unfortunate to stray too close to the black hole, emit radiation bright enough to be visible against the absolute darkness – or so the boffins hope.

"Because black holes are intrinsically dark, the radiation that matter emits on its way to the mouth of the black hole is our only way to illuminate this dark environment," explained, one of the leading scientists, Dr Avi Loeb. 

Using this method, Loeb claims we can finally detect, or rule out, the planet-mass black holes on the edge of the Oort cloud, thus solving the long-standing mystery of the so-called ‘Planet Nine.’

Theories about Planet Nine range from it being an undetected or ‘missing’ planet, banished from our solar system, to it being a primordial black hole, formed soon after the Big Bang, creating disturbances on the edge of our galactic yard. 

“Planet Nine is a compelling explanation for the observed clustering of some objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. If the existence of Planet Nine is confirmed through a direct electromagnetic search, it will be the first detection of a new planet in the solar system in two centuries, not counting Pluto,” said Amir Siraj, a Harvard astrophysics undergrad involved in the latest research.

The LSST mission will have instruments that are expected to be sensitive enough to detect radiation from beyond the Oort cloud – roughly 100,000 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. It will reportedly boast a field of view that covers the whole sky, collecting a whopping 10 terabytes of data per night, once fully operational.

One of the ideas put forth was the possibility that Planet Nine could be a grapefruit-sized black hole with a mass of five to 10 times that of the Earth. 

 

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White dwarf stars are huge source of life-giving carbon in the universe, new study finds

White dwarf stars are huge source of life-giving carbon in the universe, new study finds

New research has revealed that white dwarf stars are a key source of carbon in the Milky Way and other galaxies – and that the chemical is crucial for sustaining human life on Earth. 

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Astronomers Discover Four Never-Before-Seen Circular Radio Objects In Deep Space

They have so far defied explanation or description...  

 

As much as astronomy has revealed to us about the universe, there is still much we don’t know and anomalous discoveries routinely remind scientists of this. The newest discovery could be a totally brand-new type of astronomical object that is fascinating and a bit spooky.

Astronomers have discovered four rings, called “odd radio circles,” or ORCs, that so far have defied explanation or description. We don’t know how big the objects are, how far away they are, or how they formed-all we know is that they are only visible at radio wavelengths, where they are very bright at the edges. The ORCs are totally invisible when viewed with the visible, infrared, and X-ray wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.

The paper describing this phenomenon, which was submitted for publication to the journal Nature Astronomy, offers explanations for ORCs but also methodically rules them out. So far, supernovas, star-forming galaxies, planetary nebulas, and gravitational lensing have all been excluded as possible explanations.

Two of the ORCs appear to contain central galaxies that can be seen at visible wavelengths; scientists speculate those rings could be connected to some kind of local galactic phenomena. The other two ORCs share close physical proximity and so could be interconnected in some way.

Astronomer Kristine Spekkens at the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen’s University says,

“[The objects] may well point to a new phenomenon that we haven’t really probed yet. It may also be that these are an extension of a previously known class of objects that we haven’t been able to explore.”

Other astronomers have speculated the ring-shaped islands in deep space could be the result of shockwaves or radio galaxies.

Astronomers discovered the ORCs while working on another project, the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU), which is a map of radio frequencies in space. The EMU pilot survey employs the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder, or ASKAP, a radio telescope network of 36 dish antennas which are collectively generating a wide-angle view of the night sky and which scientists expect will identify 70 million new radio objects.

“This is a really nice indication of the shape of things to come in radio astronomy in the next couple of years,” Spekkens added. “History shows us that when we open up a new [avenue of looking at] space to explore … we always find new and exciting things.”

The discovery comes right at a time when astronomers are still struggling to understand more about another space radio anomaly, the Fast Radio Bursts, or FRBs, that spew incomprehensible amounts of energy in concentrated beams across the universe. While there are many outlandish speculations–including often specious murmurs of advanced extraterrestrial life–anytime scientists discover something in space that defies explanation, we will have to wait substantially longer to learn what both ORCs and FRBs really are.

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Alien hunter claims UFO was captured on Google Maps hovering over New Zealand beach (POLL)

Alien hunter claims UFO was captured on Google Maps hovering over New Zealand beach (POLL)

UFO hunters believe they finally have proof that Earth has been visited by alien crafts after a peculiar pattern was spotted hovering over a beach in New Zealand on Google Maps’ street view.

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UFO hunters believe they finally have proof that Earth has been visited by alien crafts after a peculiar pattern was spotted hovering over a beach in New Zealand on Google Maps’ street view.

The supposed unidentified flying object appears to be suspended in the air over St Kilda beach on New Zealand’s South Island in the Google 360-degree image. The photo was uploaded by a user named David Newstead all the way back in 2014, but it shot to prominence this week after self-proclaimed alien-hunting expert Scott Waring posted a video about it on Friday.

"The UFO looks like a fat disc, thicker in the upper and lower middle. The object is metallic in color and has no wings and nothing to indicate that it might be a balloon, drone, plane or anything,” Waring breathlessly claimed on his ET Data Base blog.

The ufologist added that the object was in “extraordinary focus” and appeared to be warping the air around it “as if its propulsion system is altering the air temperature or static.”

Remarkably, Waring’s ardent followers proposed even more outlandish explanations for the unusual occurrence. Not buying that it could have a straightforward explanation, such as being an unusual drone, a camera glitch or even mischief-making by the uploader, some of the commenters believed it was potentially proof that humanity is living in a simulation. surprise

Others speculated about how the UFO was powered and what was driving it, while one commenter hailed it as “phenomenal.” “I wonder how fast this thing was traveling – faster than the eye could catch or was it hovering and cloaked to the human eye? I just don’t know, but the mystery is exciting,” Waring added.

Waring has made a host of other “discoveries” in Google Maps and in a range of other sources, including NASA images. Despite his enthusiasm, experts say these UFO “sightings” can usually be explained by a trick of the mind known as pareidolia. This is the tendency for humans to see recognizable shapes or patterns where they do not exist.

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11-billion-year hole in our understanding of the history of the universe now ‘filled’

11-billion-year hole in our understanding of the history of the universe now ‘filled’

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has published a comprehensive 3D map of the universe, filling in many previous unknowns. It represents “some of the most substantial advances in cosmology in the last decade,” one expert says.

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Is this final proof, Creator also uses a switch ...?

 

Scientists Say A Supermassive Black Hole Glitched, Inexplicably Turning Off and On Again

The corona at the center of a black hole abruptly disappeared and then reformed, essentially turning the black hole off and then starting up again...

 

About 100 million light-years away, the super hot, ultrabright corona at the center of a supermassive black hole (1ES 1927+654) abruptly disappeared and then reformed, essentially turning the black hole off and then starting up again, as though it had glitched. It is the first time such a phenomenon has ever been documented.

Lead author of the study, Claudio Ricci, remarked,

“It was so strange that at first we thought maybe there was something wrong with the data. When we saw it was real, it was very exciting. But we also had no idea what we were dealing with; no one we talked to had seen anything like this.”

Ricci and the other MIT astronomers studying the event believe a rogue star may have caused a massive “tidal disruption,” that may have acted like “a pebble tossed into a gearbox,” which subsequently caused the entire corona of highly charged particles to come collapsing into the black hole.

As a result, the black hole’s brightness diminished precipitously, dimming by a factor of 10,000 in under a year.

“We expect that luminosity changes this big should vary on timescales of many thousands to millions of years,” Erin Kara, assistant professor of physics at MIT and co-lead on the study, explained.

“But in this object, we saw it change by 10,000 over a year, and it even changed by a factor of 100 in eight hours, which is just totally unheard of and really mind-boggling.”

So, from the point of view of scientists on Earth, the black hole seemed to just eat itself, close up shop, and disappear from radar, something corroborated by multiple telescopes and observed in X-ray, optical, and ultraviolet wave bands. But that wasn’t the end. Since the core singularity of the black hole still existed, it began to gobble up particles again and spin up a new accretion disk, re-generating its old luminosity in only months.

The MIT team first discovered the anomaly in March 2018, when they recorded an active galactic nucleus (AGN) using ASSASN, the All-Sky Automated Survey for Super-Novae. They also observed the black hole with NASA’s NICER, an X-ray telescope mounted to the International Space Station.

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Did I tell you, I spotted new Milky Way last night ...?

You will need to reshape  your view on how galaxies form und evolve ... 

 

Scientists spot Milky Way’s ‘twin’ 12.4 billion light years away, upending our understanding of how galaxies form (VIDEOS)

Scientists spot Milky Way’s ‘twin’ 12.4 billion light years away, upending our understanding of how galaxies form (VIDEOS)

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly orderly, almost copy of our Milky Way galaxy 12.4 billion light-years away which may upend our current theories about galactic formation and evolution.

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Our galactic almost-twin is called SPT0418-47 (not quite as catchy as the Milky Way), and is a flat, rotating disc with a similar mass to our own galaxy, though it wasn’t blessed with spiralling arms.

It is the earliest galaxy yet discovered with a so-called ‘galactic bulge,’ a tightly packed group of stars at its core, which apparently formed when the universe was just 1.4 billion years old.

What’s more, we might never have spotted it, were it not for some cutting-edge tech combined with pioneering computer modeling techniques, along with a large dose of good fortune.

Our current generation of extremely powerful telescopes has allowed us to peer farther in time and space than ever before but it was actually a fortuitous “introduction” by a third galaxy, located between us and SPT0418-47, that allowed us to see our galactic doppelganger.

This third galaxy created what is known as a gravitational lens, where space time is bent around a massive object, creating a magnified, if somewhat distorted, ring-shaped projection of SPT0418-47 which was spotted by astronomers using the the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile.

This projection was then analyzed and painstakingly reconstructed using advanced computer modeling techniques to reveal the most Milky Way-like galaxy ever found, but formed during the first 10 percent of the universe’s life, and therefore forcing a rethink of our current understanding.

“What we found was quite puzzling; despite forming stars at a high rate, and therefore being the site of highly energetic processes, SPT0418-47 is the most well-ordered galaxy disc ever observed in the early Universe,” said astrophysicist Simona Vegetti of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

The discovery forces us to reshape our understanding of how galaxies both form and evolve, which didn’t take as long as we thought as it turns out.

 

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/young-galaxy-12-billion-light...

Young Galaxy 12 Billion Light-Years Away Mirrors the Milky Way

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Fastest star in Milky Way powered by supermassive black hole at center of galaxy

Fastest star in Milky Way powered by supermassive black hole at center of galaxy

Scientists have discovered a once-theoretical type of star called a ‘squeezar’ orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy at roughly eight percent the speed of light.

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The newly discovered star, called S4714, is one of five such squeezars discovered by astrophysicist Florian Peissker of the University of Cologne in Germany and his team.

These so-called ‘S’ stars were first proposed by astrophysicists Tal Alexander and Mark Morris in 2003 but had never been detected until now.

This group of stars comes closer to the colossal black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) than any other star we’ve ever encountered, all while pushing the boundaries of physics, being squeezed by the tidal forces of the black hole’s immense gravity on their looping elliptical orbits.

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Scientists are Crazee!   Trying to tell us they know sh*t about sh*t,,,  oh,,, it's billion light-years away and we know it's this and that, and works like this...   sounds like LSD freaks from the 60's.

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Don't be sooo minimalistic ... What's few billion light years between friends ...   

 

Most of the links here are from RT (i.e. Roscosmos) ..., so I went around the web and found an academic take on the   "LSD"    matter ...

 

https://theconversation.com/dark-energy-map-gives-clue-about-what-it-is-but-deepens-dispute-about-the-cosmic-expansion-rate-143200

 

I'll post it, in case you are scared of an addiction .. 

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Dark energy: map gives clue about what it is – but deepens dispute about the cosmic expansion rate

 

Dark energy is one of the greatest mysteries in science today. We know very little about it, other than it is invisible, it fills the whole universe, and it pushes galaxies away from each other. This is making our cosmos expand at an accelerated rate. But what is it? One of the simplest explanations is that it is a “cosmological constant” – a result of the energy of empty space itself – an idea introduced by Albert Einstein.

Many physicists aren’t satisfied with this explanation, though. They want a more fundamental description of its nature. Is it some new type of energy field or exotic fluid? Or is it a sign that Einstein’s equations of gravity are somehow incomplete? What’s more, we don’t really understand the universe’s current rate of expansion.

Now our project - the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) - has come up with some answers. Our work has been released as a series of 23 publications, some of which are still being peer reviewed, describing the largest three-dimensional cosmological map ever created.

Currently, the only way we can feel the presence of dark energy is with observations of the distant universe. The farther galaxies are, the younger they appear to us. That’s because the light they emit took millions or even billions of years to reach our telescopes. Thanks to this sort of time-machine, we can measure different distances in space at different cosmic times, helping us work out how quickly the universe is expanding.

Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope, we measured more than two million galaxies and quasars – extremely bright and distant objects that are powered by black holes – over the last two decades. This new map covers around 11 billion years of cosmic history that was essentially unexplored, teaching us about dark energy like never before.

Picture of the Sloan Digital Survey Telescope.https://images.theconversation.com/files/349099/original/file-20200723-3... 1200w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/349099/original/file-20200723-3... 1800w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/349099/original/file-20200723-3... 754w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/349099/original/file-20200723-3... 1508w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/349099/original/file-20200723-3... 2262w" />

SDSS telescope. Sloan Digital Sky Survey/wikipedia, CC BY-SA

Our results show that about 69% of our universe’s energy is dark energy. They also demonstrate, once again, that Einstein’s simplest form of dark energy - the cosmological constant - agrees the most with our observations.

When combining the information from our map with other cosmological probes, such as the cosmic microwave background – the light left over from the big bang – they all seem to prefer the cosmological constant over more exotic explanations of dark energy.

Cosmic expansion in dispute

The results also provide a better insight into some recent controversies about the expansion rate of the universe today and about the geometry of space.

Combining our observations with studies of the universe in its infancy reveals cracks in our description of its evolution. In particular, our measurement of the current rate of expansion of the universe is about 10% lower than the value found using direct methods of measuring distances to nearby galaxies. Both these methods claim their result is correct and very precise, so their difference cannot simply be a statistical fluke.

Cone-shaped picture of the universe expanding over time.https://images.theconversation.com/files/349105/original/file-20200723-2... 1200w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/349105/original/file-20200723-2... 1800w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/349105/original/file-20200723-2... 754w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/349105/original/file-20200723-2... 1508w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/349105/original/file-20200723-2... 2262w" />

 

 

The universe’s expansion over time. NASA/WMAP Science Team/ Art by Dana Berry

The precision of eBOSS enhances this crisis. There is no broadly accepted explanation for this discrepancy. It may be that someone made a subtle mistake in one of these studies. Or it may be a sign that we need new physics. One exciting possibility is that a previously unknown form of matter from the early universe might have left a trace on our history. This is known as “early dark energy”, thought to be present when the universe was young, which could have modified the cosmic expansion rate.

Recent studies of the cosmic microwave background suggested that the geometry of space may be curved instead of being simply flat – which is consistent with the most accepted theory of the big bang. But our study concluded that space is indeed flat.

Even after these important advances, cosmologists over the world will remain puzzled by the apparent simplicity of dark energy, the flatness of space and the controversial values of the expansion rate today. There is only one way forward in the quest for answers – making larger and more detailed maps of the universe. Several projects are aiming to measure at least ten times more galaxies than we did.

If the maps from eBOSS were the first to explore a previously missing gap of 11 billion years of our history, the new generation of telescopes will make a high-resolution version of the same period of time. It is exciting to think about the fact that future surveys may be able to resolve the remaining mysteries about the universe’s expansion in the next decade or so. But it would be equally exciting if they revealed more surprise

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Dirty dancing: A small black hole is stripping, lighting up its binary star in time to a beat, and scientists don’t know how

Aug 18, 2020 17:23

A surprisingly small active black hole located 15,000 light-years away is lighting up a neighboring gas cloud to a specific, shared rhythm, in a strange but fascinating phenomenon.
The black hole system in question is called SS 433 and is considered a Microquasar: the black hole measures between 10 and 20 solar masses while its binary companion star is 30 times the mass of our sun.

The pair orbit each other at a distance of roughly 100 light-years every 13 days, with the gas cloud pulsating in time with the underlying rhythm of the black hole.

The exact cause of this pulsing is unknown but it is unlikely to be plasma jets emanating from the black hole and it instead may be some form of galactic light show courtesy of cosmic rays.

Cosmic rays are high-energy protons that travel almost at the speed of light and, as the black hole is wobbling on its rotational axis like a spinning top, the behavior of its cosmic rays is already somewhat eye-catching.

“But how the black hole can power the gas cloud's heartbeat is unclear to us.”

Li and his team monitored SS 433 for a decade and found that the jet of plasma emanating from the black hole loses its shape roughly every 162 days, shapeshifting from a spiral to a cone shape and back again, with the gas cloud pulsing to the rhythm of the gamma radiation emissions.

This behavior challenges and may even upend entirely existing theoretical models about these microquasars.

“SS 433 continues to amaze observers at all frequencies and theoreticians alike,” the researchers wrote, “and is certain to provide a testbed for our ideas on cosmic-ray production and propagation near microquasars for years to come.”

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This thread is racist. It should be a Hole of Colour (apparently) since NASA went woke.

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Did you know ''1 billion ..." is 1000 millions ...by using short scale? There are 2 scales ... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

 

 Next, ... we must count the distance of three (3) billion light years ...

'One light year' is the distance light travels through the universe ... Light travels fast-er measured by Earth's measures ..

 

"Light travels at a speed of 299.792 km per second; 186,287 miles per second ...", so one light year would come exactly to :

 

"365 days X 24 hours X 60 minutes X 60 seconds X 299,792 km" ...

 

"31,536,000 seconds, i.e. one year seconds X 299,792 km =

  "9,354,240,512 km" .. or in other English words, light travels more than 9 billion km in one light year ... 

 

Now, c&p ...

Please, pay attention, so you won't confuse two different numbers:

 

"million' & 'billion"

 

Unexplained fast radio burst just ‘woke up’ exactly as scientists predicted

Unexplained fast radio burst just ‘woke up’ exactly as scientists predicted

Astronomers researching the mysterious Fast Radio Burst (FRB) 121102 have confirmed that the powerful phenomenon has a predictable cycle, which may allow us to find out what exactly is causing it once and for all.Aug 24, 2020 10:35

 

Astronomers researching the mysterious Fast Radio Burst (FRB) 121102 have confirmed that the powerful phenomenon has a predictable cycle, which may allow us to find out what exactly is causing it once and for all.

First discovered in 2012, the FRB is located in a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away making it very difficult to monitor, requiring some of Earth’s most powerful instruments. 

FRBs are intense blasts of radio waves which can release as much power as hundreds of millions of suns in mere milliseconds, but the majority of them that we have observed have flared once only to disappear, never to be heard from again. 

This makes it extremely difficult to discover their composition, monitor their behavior and determine their source. In other words, they are extraordinarily difficult to study let alone predict as scientists have just managed. 

A team led by Marilyn Cruces of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, in conjunction with other research carried out at the University of Manchester by astronomer Kaustubh Rajwade, has unveiled their model for the FRB’s cycle.

For 67 days, FRB 121102 goes dark, not making any noise and effectively disappearing only to ‘wake up’ again for 90 days, producing these breathtaking millisecond radio flares that are so powerful we can see them billions of light-years away here on Earth. 

According to Cruces’ prediction for the FRB’s repeating and predictable 157-day cycle, it’s current flaring phase will last from July 9 and October 14, 2020 before it hibernates once more. 

Multiple international teams, including the National Astronomy Observatory of China which uses the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), will continue to monitor FRB 121102 to try and figure out what's behind these bursts. 

Now researchers all over the world have a specific timeframe in which to gather data before having a predetermined period for intense study without worrying they might miss some key detail or event. 

Just a tiny few FRBs have been detected repeating and they will likely hold the key to unravelling the mystery once and for all and allow us to determine what's really behind these phenomenally powerful blasts. The leading theory suggests that a certain kind of neutron star called a magnetar is responsible, but the mystery remains for the time being at least.

 

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A: "... through ..."?  Only "through" comes to mind is "Shenzhen agent can connect you with an employer, who's authorized to hire waigouren ... and can sponsor Z visa." It's not like every 10th person you meet in Shenzhen's hood can sponsor work visa ...  The only way to change from student to labourer visa is just a regular way by: 1. Finding an employer, who'll apply for an Invitation letter; 2. Exit China and apply for Z visa in your home country's Chinese embassy; 3. Enter China in 30-days after Z visa was stamped into your travelling instrument ...As I am aware, you won't be able to switch to Working permit by remaining in China....,so make ready for a return to your home .... -- icnif77