NASA's Webb Telescope Spots Galaxies Merging Around 'Monster' Black Hole...The next-gen instrument captures a rare, and rather extreme, cosmic scene.

CNet ^ | Oct. 24, 2022 12:35 p.m. PT | Monisha Ravisetti

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I always wondered, if the universe is infinite or it branches out into infinite universes, then anything you think exists must. For example there must be an entire planet of Nancy Pelosis, or as we know it here on earth: Hell. Or there must be a Captain Kirk out there with a Spock and Bones flying around in an Enterprise. Or democrats with common sense. OK, maybe that’s going too far, that’s impossible.

[blam]

WOW!

Thanks for posting.

[Magnum44]

Its full of stars....

[Bubba_Leroy]

What you're looking at is evidence of a massive galaxy merger happening 11.5 billion light-years away.

What you're looking at is evidence of a massive galaxy merger that happened 11.5 billion years ago.

I wish there was some way to see what it looked like over the 11.5 billion years since then.

[Red Badger]

Just wait.
You will.......................

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Jaw drop indeed. With all that is going on “out there” I am amazed that there is life on Earth at all.

[know.your.why]

...captures a rare...scene.

Something happening 11.5 Billion years ago? Yeah I'd say that qualifies as a rare sighting. But whats it got to do with the price of tea in Chyyyna?

[rellic]

I worked at the Kecks for ten years.
I was always a history buff and that is what
Astronomy is; History, much of it very ancient.
I had always had this nagging question in my mind,
other than navigation, what has astronomy done to
improve our lives?

[Bubba_Leroy]

It could be that Earth is the only planet in the universe with life. The evolution of life from complex organic molecules to even the simplest living organism could have required trillions of different coincidental occurrences all in the exact right order, so rare that they have never taken place anywhere else.

It is like the old adage that if you had an infinite number of monkeys banging away at an infinite number of typewriters one of them would reproduce all of the works of Shakespeare.

[jonrick46]

I hope this does not happen to our galaxy. We will be crying for spilled milk.

[Bullish]

That’s one hungry hole.

[MtnClimber]

Is one a Trump-supporting MAGA galaxy assaulting a new transgender-galaxy? Do we need to transform our government to prevent this in the future? How much did Climate Change cause this to happen?

[Telepathic Intruder]

The inventor of the wheel or the forge was probably asked the same thing.

[sit-rep]

sorry... maybe it’s due to a life in construction but seeing the blurry blobs and reading their explanation, I, in no way, can see anything they are hypnotizing!! To see any movement at all at that distance would be 100s of years.

I dont buy any of it!! just take the pictures in focus the best you can and then STFU with the rest of it. just how the heel can they tell GALAXIES depicted in different colors are moving at different speeds!!!???

[Delta 21]

I should been a space artist.

[John S Mosby]

Something being viewed now which is 11.5 BILLION Light Years away—— happened a very very long time ago.
That is to say it happened 11.5 BILLION years ago from thie present viewing. So, uh we’re still here so it must not have been anything which would have STOPPED the development of life on Earth. So why so much excitement-— it’s a really old re-run.

[minnesota_bound]

If only the aliens had paid more taxes there would not be a black hole swallowing up their galaxy...

[John S Mosby]

But they would have written “Shakespeare” in chimpanzee “language” even so, and taken a long time to do that if they could even envision the plot lines of English stage drama.

They could just as well worked out nuclear fusion- maybe they have and wejust can’t understand them!

It’s a thought, for now- 11.5 Billion years too late.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"how the heel can they tell GALAXIES depicted in different colors are moving at different speeds!!!???"

That's actually very easily done through use of the Doppler effect. It's used in radar systems all the time. It's the same as when you hear the pitch of a train's whistle changing as it moves past you. Sound is first compressed and then stretched. When the same method is used with light from any object, it is either red or blue shifted, depending on the direction it is moving.