"Star Factory" Calls Galaxy Formation Theories into Question

[MGmirkin]

(Rare Star-Making Machine Found In Distant Universe)
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Rare_ ... e_999.html

The discovery, made possible by several telescopes including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, goes against the most common theory of galaxy formation.

According to the theory, called the Hierarchical Model, galaxies slowly bulk up their stars over time by absorbing tiny pieces of galaxies -- and not in one big burst as observed in the newfound "Baby Boom" galaxy.

"This galaxy is undergoing a major baby boom, producing most of its stars all at once," said Peter Capak of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

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The Baby Boom galaxy, which belongs to a class of galaxies called starbursts, is the new record holder for the brightest starburst galaxy in the very distant universe, with brightness being a measure of its extreme star-formation rate.

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"Before now, we had only seen galaxies form stars like this in the teenaged universe, but this galaxy is forming when the universe was only a child," said Capak.

"The question now is whether the majority of the very most massive galaxies form very early in the universe like the Baby Boom galaxy, or whether this is an exceptional case. Answering this question will help us determine to what degree the Hierarchical Model of galaxy formation still holds true."

The standard Model is just striking out all over the place lately: stellar formation, galaxy formation, pulsar orbits and binaries, galaxy rotation curves (sans "dark matter")... Does anything in the standard model actually add up?

Cheers,
~Michael Gmirkin

[junglelord]

Its apparent that even a proper theory would need to explain that things while fundamental still allow a lot of variability.
If they think they can nail the universe into a box.....well I have some sad news for them.

[Solar]

Wouldn't you need a proper theory to start with?

This is because it has a huge number of youthful stars. When stars are born, they shine with a lot of ultraviolet light and produce a lot of dust.

There they go with that "youth" thing again.

Sounds to me like this galaxy is undergoing a galactic power surge (increase in current density) of an electrically tensegritic ("tension") nature. It'll calm down (relaxation) after a bit.

The incredible star-formation activity we have observed suggests that we may be witnessing, for the first time, the formation of one of the most massive elliptical galaxies in the universe," said co-author Nick Scoville of Caltech, the principal investigator of the Cosmic Evolution Survey, also known as Cosmos.

This could also be the cause of the increase in current density if allowing for the Hubble Tuning Fork relationship aka "buckshot central" according to Anthony Peratt. If so I'd put it somewhere between E7 and SO with elliptical features due to "long-range" attraction via Biot-Savart:

"Because the electrical current-carrying filaments are parallel, they attract via the Biot-Savart force law, in pairs but sometimes three." - Holoscience

The events look promising as a good fit to the barred or spiral galaxy formation model as put forth via Plasma Cosmology with the homogeneity of the plasma being the deciding factor as to which type will follow from E7/SO in the Hubble Tunning Fork evolution and onward.

Unfortunately, we don't have a few million years to watch the event unfold.