Double Nucleus Galaxies Bring Sci-Fi to Life
For once I agree! It does sound like science fiction.It may sound like science fiction, but freakish galactic events such as ravenous black holes and ripples in the space-time continuum, could be happening all around us according to new research from Swinburne University of Technology.
In a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Swinburne researchers examined 50 regular galaxies to determine their composition and structure.
The researchers, Associate Professor Alister Graham and Dr Lee Spitler, found that 12 of these galaxies contained a double nucleus - that is they had both a super massive black hole and a dense star cluster containing up to ten million stars at their centre.
Science fiction that's burning through a mountain of cash, that is.“Such emission has been predicted by Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, but has never been observed,” said Spitler. “It is theorised that when stars spiral quickly around a black hole the motion will create gravitational waves – causing ripples in the space-time continuum.”
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) – a suite of three satellites spaced five million kilometres apart and planned for launch in 2018 – is being designed to search for such ripples as they pass through our solar system.
Peratt's PIC simulation
Bostick's plasmoids.
Peratt's PIC simulations and Bostick's plasmoid experiments are not science fiction. What is the result? A double nucleus/barred spiral. Oh, and a "CMBR", produced by Peratts simulation, nearly identical to what is measured.
Single core galaxies would be a plasmoid ejected from a parent galaxy. Double (or more) core galaxies, and/or barred spirals, would be produced by the pinch between two, or more, cosmic Birkeland current "cables", as demonstrated by Peratt and Bostick. I say cables because we know that large filaments are composed of bundles of smaller filaments and so forth. When the two main "cables" come together forming a pinch zone, not only is there a central pinch column, there are also pinch zones within the cables themselves, producing their own plasmoids within the cables, around the equatorial plane of the central pinch column. The Bennet relation describes this mechanism. Since the probability is extremely low for any two cosmic Birkeland current cables being identical in size and total electrical energy , it makes sense that the two core "plasmoids" would have corresponding differences in size, morphology and total energy as well.
It would be interesting to see the results of 3D pic modeling taking assymetry of the Birkeland currents in to account.
