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- The biggest “ thing” in the Universe ( so far ) is a Great Wall of galaxies 1 billion lightyears across. The wall is called the “BOSS”. It contains over 830 galaxies and is 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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- The Milky Way s 10 billion years old. The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Our galaxy is rotating at 504,000 miles per hour with a radius of 5*10^21 meters. ( There are 9.4605 *10^15 meters per lightyear). Galaxy radius is 529,000 lightyears to its outermost reaches.
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- Galaxies group into “ clusters”. Larger structures of clusters are called “ super clusters”. Then the biggest is the “Wall of galaxies“. The BOSS is 5 billion lightyears away.
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- In between the fabric of galaxy clusters and threads of galaxies are VOIDS. A vacuum of nothingness.
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- Astronomers discovered a large hole of this “ nothingness” that was 500 lightyears away. Actually it is a dark cloud of gas and dust. Called “ Bernard 68” , it is catalogued as “ Dark Nebula” , a molecular cloud of neutral gas.
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- Bernard 68 is 0.25 lightyears radius and 0.25 Solar Mass of neutral gas. Neutral gas blocks visible light but is transparent to infrared. Using Infrared Telescopes astronomers found the hole to contain 3,700 background stars becoming visible in the infrared.
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- The interior of the gas cloud is extremely cold, 16 Kelvin. It s cold but definitely not a “hole” in the Universe as it was so broadly mis-reported. There are regions of space where there is far less matter- stars, gas, dust, even Dark Matter, than average. In fact these are only under-density regions within a larger volume of average space.
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- Social media has identified this hole in media photos widely communicated. Millions of people now believe it. The correct explanation is only communicated to a few thousand people. The knowledge of the general populace is not ignorance but rather media misinformation posing as knowledge.
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-Communicators need to be scrupulous and diligent, particularly in this political season. “Truth” is not simply looking at the result you want to hear. Communications takes more effort than that. More integrity.
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- Blackholes are” real” holes in the Universe. We don’t know what “real” is yet. A quasar Blackhole 3.5 billion lightyears away is rotating 33% the speed of light. It weighs 18 billion Solar Mass. It’s “ Black”. How can we possible know how fast the hole is spinning ?
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- This particular Quasar is in a region of sky that has been studied for over a century. Called “OJ287” this Quasar emits periodic optical outbursts every 12 years since 1891.
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- The bursts have double peaks. A computer model developed to simulate this data comes up with 2 unequal mass Blackholes orbiting each other. The smaller Blackhole passes through the Accretion Disk of the larger Blackhole during its elliptical orbit.
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- The collisions cause the Disk material to heat up, radiating for weeks. The elliptical orbit precesses at a rate that depends on the masses of the 2 Blackholes and precession rotation rate. The model concluded that the elliptical orbit is tilted 39 degrees. The 2 Blackholes are 100 million Solar Mass and 18,000 million Solar Mass. The orbit radius is 10 light weeks. The Quasar is 35 billion lightyears away.
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- The model predicted the next outburst to occur November 25, 2015. It actually occurred November 18, 2015 reaching a maximum brightness on December 4, 2015.
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- Even more finely tuned calculations on this data predicted the loss of orbital energy due to the radiation of Gravitational Waves. The hope is that these waves will be detected by LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravity Wave Observatory. ( See Review # 1795)
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- Stay tuned, an announcement will be made shortly.
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- Request these Reviews to learn more:
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- (1) Reference Kerr Blackholes after Roy Kerr who calculated the maximum rotation rates of Blackholes with zero charges about a central axis.
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- (2) See also Gravity Probe B. (Review # 1728, 1536) .
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- #1819 - new discoveries that may close the gap between stellar and galaxy center Blackholes. It is estimated that there are 100,000,000 Blackholes in our own galaxy.
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- There are 21 more reviews available upon request about Blackholes. Many discoveries are occurring with rapidly moving technology.
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