Signs in the heavens ...

[mattfivefour]

Apparently this is blowing the astronomers' minds because it runs totally counter to their long-held theories about the beginnings of the Universe.


Mysterious Space Blob Discovered at Cosmic Dawn

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Pasadena, CA —Using information from a suite of telescopes, astronomers have discovered a mysterious, giant object that existed at a time when the universe was only about 800 million years old. Objects such as this one are dubbed extended Lyman-Alpha blobs; they are huge bodies of gas that may be precursors to galaxies. This blob was named Himiko for a legendary, mysterious Japanese queen. It stretches for 55 thousand light years, a record for that early point in time. That length is comparable to the radius of the Milky Way’s disk.​

The researchers are puzzled by the object. Even with superb data from the world’s best telescopes, they are not sure what it is. Because it is one of the most distant objects ever found, its faintness does not allow the researchers to understand its physical origins. It could be ionized gas powered by a super-massive black hole; a primordial galaxy with large gas accretion; a collision of two large young galaxies; super wind from intensive star formation; or a single giant galaxy with a large mass of about 40 billion Suns. Because this mysterious and remarkable object was discovered early in the history of the universe in a Japanese Subaru field, the researchers named the object after the legendary mysterious queen in ancient Japan.​

“The farther out we look into space, the farther we go back in time, “ explained lead author Masami Ouchi, a fellow at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution who led an international team of astronomers from the U.S., Japan, and the United Kingdom. “I am very surprised by this discovery. I have never imagined that such a large object could exist at this early stage of the universe’s history. According to the concordance model of Big Bang cosmology, small objects form first and then merge to produce larger systems. This blob had a size of typical present-day galaxies when the age of the universe was about 800 million years old, only 6% of the age of today’s universe!”​

More at http://www.ciw.edu/news/mysterious_space_blob_discovered_cosmic_dawn

 

[TexasThunder]

This is really cool, just don't tell Al Gore or he will go on a crusade to stop cosmic gasses!

 

[mattfivefour]

This is really cool, just don't tell Al Gore or he will go on a crusade to stop cosmic gasses!

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[bghtnpd4]

I can't wait to see these things from our new home....: shouldn't be much longer now!

 

[israelmybeloved]

I can't wait to see these things from our new home....: shouldn't be much longer now!

Agreed, my door to my apartment will be unlocked, so come on in and get what you want, BTW, look for a book that has a black cover and gold writing on the front, it reads Holy Bible, take it and keep it safe, you will need it, for it is the LIVING word of Jesus. He will save you just ask Him to. To those who will be left behind.