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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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07/18/2024 5:54:57 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
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07/18/2024 5:56:53 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
To: SunkenCiv
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire, the ring of fire
To: HartleyMBaldwin
It’s also hotter than a pepper sprout.
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07/18/2024 5:59:18 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
To: SunkenCiv
When they refer to ‘rapid star formation’ they’re talking about millions of years, right?
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07/18/2024 6:07:11 PM PDT
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Bullish
(...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
To: SunkenCiv
Ein stein to rule them all.
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07/18/2024 6:08:41 PM PDT
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ClearCase_guy
(It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
To: SunkenCiv
The universe could be collapsing in on itself. And we would never see the end coming.
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posted on
07/18/2024 6:20:28 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: SunkenCiv
Robert Millikan, Lemaître and Albert Einstein after Lemaître's lecture at the California Institute of Technology in January 1933.
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07/18/2024 6:27:04 PM PDT
by
xoxox
To: Revel
That means I’ll never have to pay off my credit cards! :^)
But yeah, we could have entered the event horizon.
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07/18/2024 6:28:36 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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07/18/2024 6:32:26 PM PDT
by
married21
(As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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07/18/2024 7:15:06 PM PDT
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Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: ClearCase_guy
Stein can be either “stone” or “beer mug”.
I choose beer.
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posted on
07/18/2024 7:22:38 PM PDT
by
dadgum
(“”)
To: SunkenCiv
Yet they can’t get a clear picture of Bigfoot.
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07/18/2024 7:27:37 PM PDT
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roving
(Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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07/18/2024 8:14:03 PM PDT
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Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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.
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07/18/2024 8:39:17 PM PDT
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cpdiii
(cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
To: SunkenCiv
Oh Great!!
Now we’ve all seen the eye!!!
Thanks a lot!!!
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07/19/2024 1:06:20 AM PDT
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DannyTN
To: DannyTN
Oh noooooos!Somebody divided by zero!
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posted on
07/19/2024 1:33:43 AM PDT
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Theophilus
(covfefe)
To: cpdiii
What existed before the Big bang...
Static so intense your hair would stand on end.
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07/19/2024 4:10:57 AM PDT
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brooklin
To: DannyTN
Yeah, I’ve really loused it up this time!
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07/19/2024 4:28:32 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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.
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07/19/2024 7:46:15 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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