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10-billion-year-old View of Mysterious Glowing 'Einstein Ring' Reveals Rare Discovery, Challenging Current Theories
The Debrief ^ | July 18, 2024 | Micah Hanks

Posted on 07/18/2024 5:54:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

The galaxy PJ0116-24, located 10 billion light-years away from Earth, appears to exhibit characteristics that contradict the standard view that galaxy mergers are required to produce such intense luminosity.

The groundbreaking findings, which are detailed in a newly published paper in Nature Astronomy, seem to point to the occurrence of rapid star formation in HyLIRGs, revealing that it can occur through internal processes. The discovery presents new challenges to existing notions held by astronomers about how such formations occur...

In the past, it was believed that the intense luminosity produced by HyLIRGs was exclusively the result of mergers between galaxies, which result in dense regions of gas that are perfect catalysts for the rapid onset of star formation.

Contradicting this view, the new observations of PJ0116-24 appear to show that isolated galaxies can also become HyLIRGs under the right conditions, specifically when internal processes quickly funnel star-forming gas toward their centers.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedebrief.org ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; einsteinring; hylirg; hylirgs; physics; pj011624; science; stringtheory
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1 posted on 07/18/2024 5:54:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 07/18/2024 5:56:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: SunkenCiv

And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire, the ring of fire


3 posted on 07/18/2024 5:57:55 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

It’s also hotter than a pepper sprout.


4 posted on 07/18/2024 5:59:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: SunkenCiv

When they refer to ‘rapid star formation’ they’re talking about millions of years, right?


5 posted on 07/18/2024 6:07:11 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ein stein to rule them all.


6 posted on 07/18/2024 6:08:41 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: SunkenCiv

The universe could be collapsing in on itself. And we would never see the end coming.


7 posted on 07/18/2024 6:20:28 PM PDT by Revel
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To: SunkenCiv

Robert Millikan, Lemaître and Albert Einstein after Lemaître's lecture at the California Institute of Technology in January 1933.
8 posted on 07/18/2024 6:27:04 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: Revel

That means I’ll never have to pay off my credit cards! :^)

But yeah, we could have entered the event horizon.


9 posted on 07/18/2024 6:28:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

😆


10 posted on 07/18/2024 6:32:26 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

ouch...


11 posted on 07/18/2024 7:15:06 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Stein can be either “stone” or “beer mug”.

I choose beer.


12 posted on 07/18/2024 7:22:38 PM PDT by dadgum (“”)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yet they can’t get a clear picture of Bigfoot.


13 posted on 07/18/2024 7:27:37 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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MarQ


14 posted on 07/18/2024 8:14:03 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The real question is what existed the moment before the Big Bang? A universe from nothing? That is impossible. It can only be God eternal, and physicists can not explain what is eternal nor the one instance in time before the big bang of which our universe is today.


15 posted on 07/18/2024 8:39:17 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: SunkenCiv

Oh Great!!
Now we’ve all seen the eye!!!
Thanks a lot!!!


16 posted on 07/19/2024 1:06:20 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

Oh noooooos!Somebody divided by zero!


17 posted on 07/19/2024 1:33:43 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: cpdiii

What existed before the Big bang...

Static so intense your hair would stand on end.


18 posted on 07/19/2024 4:10:57 AM PDT by brooklin
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To: DannyTN

Yeah, I’ve really loused it up this time!


19 posted on 07/19/2024 4:28:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: roving
If they're close enough to get a clear picture, they're generally running for their lives. :^)
Is such a thing even possible? Yes, it is.
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

20 posted on 07/19/2024 7:46:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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