Galaxy Cluster Stuns Scientists—Supermassive and Spewing Out Stars

nationalgeographic.com ^ | August 15, 2012 | Andrew Fazekas

[Berlin_Freeper]

It seemed too good to be true: a superbright newfound galaxy cluster possibly more massive than any other known, forging fresh stars nearly a thousand times faster than normal.

[EDINVA]

so what’s 5.7 billion light years between friends?

I can never grasp the numbers, time, distances in astrophysics.

[onyx]

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Phoenix Cluster

Phoenix Cluster

[Captain Beyond]

Astronomy ping

[colinhester]

Bflr

[onyx]

Awesome!
Thank you very much, dearest Berlin_FReeper!

[onyx]

The tour of Phoenix has more than 300 views than the other, (I can understand why) but none are racking up more viewing numbers. I watched the “tour” twice.

[Impy]

Is Michelle’s home planet of Kashyyyk in one of those galaxies?

She’s a Wookie from Kashyyyk but she lives on Earth, that does not make sense!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Such a pretty wonderment.
My pleasure, onyx. :)

[MestaMachine]

And just who the heck dcides what is ‘normal’. L-rd, but ‘scientists’ are so egotistical! As IF the entire universe operates the way they say it SHOULD, and if it doesn’t, well, that’s just abnormal.

[onyx]

Stunningly beautiful. God’s creation.

[AuH2ORepublican]

You’re right. I think that it’s clear that we must acquit.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Let’s grant that God gets to decide what’s normal. When a phemenon outdistances other members of it’s class, it’s abnormal. Einstein was abnormally gifted and persistent, by any standard.

This finding is provocative because it appears, to my untutored mind, to challenge conventional cosmology because it’s an outlier. Conventional cosmology claims that there is no center of the Universe, that one patch of the universe, on a large enough scale, is pretty much like any other.

But what if it’s not? That will stand cosmology on it’s figurative head.

[Moltke]

Get a grip on yourself - it's just compared to what has been observed (not dictated by scientists) in other cases.

[bmwcyle]

Is this where a black hole empties out?

[762X51]

WOW! And what the scientists are seeing (at 5.7 billion light years from Earth) all happened nearly 600 million years before the Earth was even here!

[MestaMachine]

I wish I had a nickle for everytime a scientist has said, “We must rethink this.”
My fortune would surpass the richest man on earth and then some.

[nomodem]

I can never grasp the numbers, time, distances in astrophysics.

Heck, I can't even truly grasp 1000 years or miles - I wonder if there's a human being alive who can. Scientists very confidently publish these numbers - millions / billions of years / light years - their "standard" models need these incredible numbers in order to be somewhat credible. How wrong can these models be when they completely ignore so many possibilities - especially the possibility of a creator?

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, - Romans 1:22

[DarthVader]

LOL!!! >;0)