Posted on 01/06/2009 5:02:55 PM PST by decimon
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Astronomers may have solved a cosmic chicken-and-the-egg problem: Which came first — galaxies or the supermassive black holes in their cores?
For several years now, researchers have known that galaxies and black holes must have co-evolved, with budding galaxies feeding material to a growing black hole while the immense gravity of the black hole generated in its vicinity tremendous radiation that in turn powered star formation. But the scientists hadn't pegged the starting point.
"It looks like black holes came first. The evidence is piling up," said Chris Carilli of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in New Mexico. Carilli presented his team's findings here today at the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
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You mean I can blame thr Universe on my Middle Age Bulge?
Works for me!
...Always interesed in astronomy. Thanks fer the post, good on yer...
Operative word is “suggests”...nothing more!
In Michigan, many potholes preceeded many Ford Galaxies.
And likely succeeded them.
Looks like a Vegas fountain.
Where did the picture come from? Is there a story behind the hole?
When you realize that the galaxies are spinning, something had to be at the center holding it all together from the beginning.
one day they’ll discover that the Universe is just one big recycling center. Singularity, Bang, Expansion, Contraction, repeat infinate amount of times as necessary.
I've seen that speculation. On a timescale of trillions of years.
PC correction:
Africanamerican holes.
I’ve been saying for years that Black Holes preceded Galaxies, but did anyone believe me? Hell no! Now I am finally vindicated.
I’m off to the Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction in Scottsdale to sell my classic Galaxie and try to snag a pristine ‘67 Black Hole.
What out for the pulsars on the way.
In what way is information preserved between successive creation/destruction cycles that would show that?
what if there is not enough mass to collapse the universe back on itself?(as it looks like) What causes the contraction of the universe?
one day they’ll discover that the Universe is just one big recycling center. Singularity, Bang, Expansion, Contraction, repeat infinate amount of times as necessary.
Not. An object at rest stays at rest without an outside force acting upon it. The singularity contains everything. Something outside of space time has to act on it or it stays a singularity forever. That force is supernatural since it outside of space and time. The big bang exploded the idea of a steady state universe . . .
leaving us with the God as a logical necessity.
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