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
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Cosmic Inter-Galactic Internet.
It's a lonely job patrolling the filament between two slowly colliding galaxy clusters, but someone has to do it.
Yep. There are FReepers who are...not of this galaxy...
But there’s no point in writing tickets cause nobody ever pays them. Probably end up having to arrest and charge those electrons.
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”.
This is a collect call from E.T. Will you accept the charges?...
I was thinking planet, Galaxy is a whole nubba lebbel.
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....
probably just ads. I hear them more and more on my car’s radio.
Just the Vogons at work constructing an intergalactic hyperdrive by-pass!
Nothing to get excited about!
Hailing frequencies open...
"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."
You know what to do!
Hydrogen atom 1: I’m missing an electron!
Hydrogen atom 2: Are you sure?
Hydrogen atom 1: Yes, I’m Positive!...................
Patriots, Time to stop being nine.
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