Giant ring of black holes
X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/S.Rappaport et al, Optical: NASA/STScI
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just in time for Valentine's Day comes a new image of a ring -- not of jewels -- but of black holes.
This composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light years from Earth, shows X-rays from the NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, blue) produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md.
Arp 147 contains the remnant of a spiral galaxy (right) that collided with the elliptical galaxy on the left. This collision has produced an expanding wave of star formation that shows up as a blue ring containing in abundance of massive young stars. These stars race through their evolution in a few million years or less and explode as supernovas, leaving behind neutron stars and black holes.
A fraction of the neutron stars and black holes will have companion stars, and may become bright X-ray sources as they pull in matter from their companions. The nine X-ray sources scattered around the ring in Arp 147 are so bright that they must be black holes, with masses that are likely ten to twenty times that of the Sun.
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An X-ray source is also detected in the nucleus of the red galaxy on the left and may be powered by a poorly-fed supermassive black hole. This source is not obvious in the composite image but can easily be seen in the X-ray image. Other objects unrelated to Arp 147 are also visible: a foreground star in the lower left of the image and a background quasar as the pink source above and to the left of the red galaxy.Infrared observations with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and ultraviolet observations with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) have allowed estimates of the rate of star formation in the ring. These estimates, combined with the use of models for the evolution of binary stars have allowed the authors to conclude that the most intense star formation may have ended some 15 million years ago, in Earth's time frame.
These results were published in the October 1st, 2010 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. The authors were Saul Rappaport and Alan Levine from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, David Pooley from Eureka Scientific and Benjamin Steinhorn, also from MIT.
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Feb 09, 2011
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Arp's discovery of a variety Z values in these objects seriously threatens the conventional dogma of Z signifying distance whereas Z really appears to be a measure of the age of the matter being observed.
Something is very fishy if the state of cosmology!
Feb 09, 2011
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You're obviously a BB denier who would rather believe in discredited fringeologists. Arp's so-called theories are ancient (60s) and a lot has happened in the meantime, which totally crushes his ideas.
The fact that he is still digging in his heels and is stubbornly standing by his original notions in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, shows a certain disconnect from the real world, as do you for buying into it.
Feb 10, 2011
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Feb 10, 2011
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You do realize that the black hole theory was first promoted in the late 18th century right?
How is the 60s anchient? Dark matter was the 30s I believe.
Now the 60s and 70s was a big advancement period of science where alot of ideas past and current were expounded upon. Arp has simply lost out from other evidence, but he's hardly "ancient".
Feb 10, 2011
Rank: 1.8 / 5 (12)
arxiv.org/pdf/1102.1499v1
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
Feb 10, 2011
Rank: 4.4 / 5 (7)
You need to better understand what I posted, in its entirety, rather than cherry-pick one phrase.
I said his position is ancient because he has not moved with the times, rather then for a specific date when he proposed his theory.
He's basically ignored all the evidence that has been subsequently amassed from sources like modern 10m terrestrial telescopes with advanced imaging detectors, the Hubble space telescope, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and any number of other research projects which have conclusively proved him wrong.
So yes, his immutable theories are ancient by these standards.
Feb 11, 2011
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Feb 12, 2011
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Arp refused to march lock-step with the consensus scientists who followed the path that former President Eisenhower warned about in 1961:
youtube.com/watch?v=GOLld5PR4ts
Feb 13, 2011
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Yep is a Plasma Universe Crank. Even YOU don't Crank that way.
Arp sees connections between stars that are BEHIND galaxies that don't exist and he calls that evidence that the VERY distant background objects are part of the foreground galaxies. He is just plain wrong. Exactly like you so it is no wonder that you back the Arps in their refusal to make the connection with MODERN evidence.
Yep its been a while, over 19 months, since you posted under your own handle. What happened? Where the sockpuppets banned?
Still Cranking away I see. Like the Arps and Oliver you don't seem to learn about reality vs fantasy.
Ethelred
Feb 16, 2011
Rank: 1.5 / 5 (8)
That is the root of the problem.
youtube.com/watch?v=AQZe_Qk-q7M
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA Principal
Investigator for Apollo
Feb 16, 2011
Rank: 1 / 5 (7)
This is a beutiful Image. I look for Neck regions around ~10^8 LY . In essence ,this forms a Link to Upper-regions to Universe- BRAHMA-ANDA- and Lower regions to Heart or Center of the Universe.A perfect Balance is needed-NOTE-(Halton) Arp objects is that different areas of an object shows vastly different red shifts-This is
in confirmity wiyh my Projections- See details in Essence of Scientific Philophy, Vedic Vision of the Universe and Cosmolgy Revision [my books]
see Cosmology Vedas Interlinks-
Feb 17, 2011
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Ethelred
Feb 17, 2011
Rank: 1.7 / 5 (6)
1. “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”
- Herbert Spencer
2. “To know that you do not know is best.
To pretend to know what you do not know is a disease.”
– Lao Tzu
Feb 18, 2011
Rank: 4 / 5 (4)
Go do the work Oliver. Posting irrelevant quotes will not hide your refusal to check the data.
Ethelred
Feb 18, 2011
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arxiv.org/pdf/1102.1499v1
And in papers cited there.
Where is Ethel's rebuttal?
Feb 19, 2011
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Where is evidence for neutrons repelling each other. It isn't in your paper. THE CLAIM is in your paper but there isn't any evidence that would support that claim. IF your claim was true there would be no atoms with neutrons at all since YOU also claim that neutron repulsion would stop the formation of Black Holes and that would require a force vastly stronger than the strong force which is what holds the nucleus together.
With neutron repulsion needing to be pushing harder than the strong force is pulling there could be no atoms with neutrons. On top of which neutron repulsion makes no sense in a quark based system of nucleons and that system is pretty solid at the moment.
Where does this magical force come from Oliver. It isn't the strong force as your claim that there are no Black Holes requires an even stronger force.
Where is your explanation for the force you need Oliver.
Ethelred
Feb 19, 2011
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See: "Attraction and repulsion of nucleons: Sources of stellar energy", J. Fusion Energy 19, 93-98 (2001):
omatumr.com/abstracts/jfeinterbetnuc.pdf
youtube.com/watch?v=sXNyLYSiPO0
Feb 19, 2011
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Omatumr may be a crank but neutron repulsion isn't the weakest link in his theory. Neutrons do repel each other. If you need any evidence of this, consider that neutron repulsion is what prevents a neutron star from collapsing into a black hole. This repulsion comes from the Pauli Exclusion Principle for fermions (of which neutrons are a member). Omatumr did come about this from the wrong direction and in complete ignorance of the fact that the scientific community came upon it many decades before he did.
Feb 19, 2011
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"Attraction and repulsion of nucleons: Sources of stellar energy", J. Fusion Energy 19, 93-98 (2001):
omatumr.com/abstracts/jfeinterbetnuc.pdf
youtube.com/watch?v=sXNyLYSiPO0
Feb 20, 2011
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Feb 20, 2011
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Although the mainstream scientific community would now like to take credit for recognizing the powerful force of neutron repulsion many decades ago, the simple fact is that they did not.
Yes, they observed neutron repulsion - in nuclear fission, in solar energy, and in violent explosions in the cosmos - but they failed to recognize it.
Experimental observations that they ignored are shown in the video:
youtube.com/watch?v=sXNyLYSiPO0
Feb 22, 2011
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Out of curiosity I used the Pauli Exclusion Principle and Fermi momentum (the nonrelativistic equation from this page: allrite.net/science/science/dead_stars2.htm) to calculate the kinetic energy of a neutron at a density perhaps typical of the inner crust of a neutron star - 10^17 kg/m^3. It came out to 30 MeV. Noting that Omatumr's crude "nuclear cradle" estimate of neutron energy excess is 10-22 MeV - the same order of magnitude - it is obvious that he has wasted the last couple decades of his life reinventing the wheel. The scientific community discovered neutron repulsion due to Pauli Exclusion back in 1939. For a good review of the advanced state of the science as of 1959, see
adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1959ApJ...130..884C .