Enigmatic Object Called 'The Accident' Hints of an Entire Population of Unknown Stars

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 1 SEPTEMBER 2021 | MICHELLE STARR

[Red Badger]

Perhaps this is where all that ‘Dark Matter’ is hiding?.....................

[dfwgator]

[Red Badger]

There’s probably a whole bunch of stuff out there we don’t know about.........................

[ClearCase_guy]

a recently discovered object is suggesting that we're far from knowing everything.

Darn. I thought we did.

[Travelin’ Right]

It’s from The Dagobah System, Outer Rim Territories

[EEGator]

“God does not play dice.”

- Einstein

[Red Badger]

Every time you turn around, another Dagobah .........................

[Verginius Rufus]

...we're far from knowing everything.

You think?

I've seen estimates for how many galaxies there are which range from 100 billion to 2 trillion. Two trillion is 20 times as many as 100 billion. That's quite a range.

[fruser1]

"If The Accident was around before these elements (including carbon) were more common through the Universe, then its light would be stronger in specific wavelengths that would normally be absorbed by methane"

This would also mean there are no cows there.

[Red Badger]

Nor Taco Bells.........................

[Red Badger]

And each galaxy has a billion+ stars.......................

[Angelino97]

Oddly, it's zooming around the galaxy very fast, at speeds of around 207.4 kilometers (128.9 miles) per second.

I did the math. Were it coming directly toward us, it would be here in roughly 78,125+ years. Say in early A.D. 80,147.

Not that far off in cosmic terms. Of course, it's not coming toward us. But if it did, it might mean the end of the world.

[Red Badger]

Just because it ain’t doesn’t mean there isn’t one that is...................

[dainbramaged]

I have a cousin whose nickname is “the accident”.

[xp38]

brown dwarf? Size challenged star of colour!

[Red Badger]

Is his Indian name ‘Broken Rubber’?....................

[zeugma]

## “This ... defied all our expectations,” said astrophysicist Davy Kirkpatrick of Caltech.

If I had a nickel for every time a scientist said that, I’d be a billionaire.

[Verginius Rufus]

An unknown percentage of stars have planets, so there must be trillions or quadrillions of planets in the universe.

Whether there is life on any other planet is still undetermined. If life arises whenever conditions are right, there could be many planets with life, but in most cases it may be very primitive life. It took billions of years between the first appearance of life on earth and the first multi-cellular life. The only thing that seems reasonably certain is that no other planet has chocolate.

[Red Badger]

Or Vanilla.............................