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Mysterious 'Bridge' of Radio Waves Between Galaxies Seems to Be Smashing the Laws of Physics...
Live Science ^ | June 6, 2019 12:48pm ET | Brandon Specktor,

Posted on 06/07/2019 9:55:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The galaxy clusters Abell 0399 and Abell 0401 are some of the most massive objects in the universe. In a new study, researchers have discovered a 10-million-light-year-long bridge of radio waves (shown in blue in this composite image) linking them, and it’s doing crazy things to electrons.

On the big roadmap of the universe, bustling clusters of galaxies are connected by long highways of plasma weaving around the wilderness of empty space. These interspace roadways are known as filaments, and they can stretch for hundreds of millions of light-years, populated only by dust, gas and busy electrons driving very close to the universal speed limit.

Even when moving at near-light speed, particles should only be able to make it a fraction of the way down one of these filaments before running out of juice and breaking down. However, a team of astronomers patrolling a filament between two slowly colliding galaxy clusters has discovered a stream of electrons that isn't abiding by these traffic rules. In the gassy filament between the galaxy clusters Abell 0399 and Abell 0401, the researchers have detected a vast bridge of radio-wave emissions, created by charged particles whizzing down a 10-million-light-year-long road for far longer than should be physically possible.

The source of this cosmic traffic violation, according to a new study published June 7 in the journal Science, may be a faint but turbulent magnetic field stretching from one galaxy cluster to the next, providing a mysterious particle accelerator that's kicking electrons 10 times farther than they are ordinarily able to travel

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: abell0399; abell0401; astronomy; haltonarp; science; stringtheory
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1 posted on 06/07/2019 9:55:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 06/07/2019 9:56:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Cosmic Inter-Galactic Internet.


3 posted on 06/07/2019 9:58:42 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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Trails from a huge fleet of spacecrafts?

4 posted on 06/07/2019 9:59:07 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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"However, a team of astronomers patrolling a filament between two slowly colliding galaxy clusters has discovered a stream of electrons that isn't abiding by these traffic rules."

It's a lonely job patrolling the filament between two slowly colliding galaxy clusters, but someone has to do it.

5 posted on 06/07/2019 9:59:17 AM PDT by DannyTN
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6 posted on 06/07/2019 10:02:10 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Cosmic Inter-Galactic Internet.

Yep. There are FReepers who are...not of this galaxy...

7 posted on 06/07/2019 10:03:09 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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But there’s no point in writing tickets cause nobody ever pays them. Probably end up having to arrest and charge those electrons.


8 posted on 06/07/2019 10:03:52 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Does it look sort of like a rainbow?


9 posted on 06/07/2019 10:06:14 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: BenLurkin

For a bunch of people who are prone to accuse others of stupidity for disagreeing with them, the astrophysicists seem to keep finding a lot of stuff that doesn’t fit ther “settled science”.


10 posted on 06/07/2019 10:06:38 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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This is a collect call from E.T. Will you accept the charges?...


11 posted on 06/07/2019 10:08:33 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1946)
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To: Billthedrill

I was thinking planet, Galaxy is a whole nubba lebbel.


12 posted on 06/07/2019 10:11:28 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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I was by there this morning on my early morning galaxy ride and I saw the Galaxy Police had pulled them over for breaking the law of physics...Had ‘em in handcuffs and everything....


13 posted on 06/07/2019 10:12:51 AM PDT by JBW1949
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probably just ads. I hear them more and more on my car’s radio.


14 posted on 06/07/2019 10:13:43 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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Just the Vogons at work constructing an intergalactic hyperdrive by-pass!

Nothing to get excited about!


15 posted on 06/07/2019 10:14:29 AM PDT by Reily
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Hailing frequencies open...


16 posted on 06/07/2019 10:15:05 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Swordmaker
Electric Universe ping...

"On the big roadmap of the universe, bustling clusters of galaxies are connected by long highways of plasma weaving around the wilderness of empty space. These interspace roadways are known as filaments, and they can stretch for hundreds of millions of light-years, populated only by dust, gas and busy electrons driving very close to the universal speed limit."

17 posted on 06/07/2019 10:15:10 AM PDT by Windflier (Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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You know what to do!


18 posted on 06/07/2019 10:16:22 AM PDT by misanthrope (Deranged, sinister deplorable)
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To: Still Thinking

Hydrogen atom 1: I’m missing an electron!

Hydrogen atom 2: Are you sure?

Hydrogen atom 1: Yes, I’m Positive!...................


19 posted on 06/07/2019 10:19:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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Patriots, Time to stop being nine.


20 posted on 06/07/2019 10:25:13 AM PDT by coaster123
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