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The Milky Way's satellites seem to be arranged in an implausibly thin plane piercing through the galaxy and, oddly, they are also circling in a coherent and long-lived disk.

There is no known physical mechanism that would make satellites planes. Instead, it was thought that satellite galaxies should be arranged in a roughly round configuration tracing the dark matter.

The fact that the arrangement of satellites could not be explained led researchers to think that the cold dark matter theory of galaxy formation might be wrong.

However, this latest research saw astronomers use new data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory.

These data allowed scientists to project the orbits of the satellite galaxies into the past and future and see the plane form and dissolve in a few hundred million years—a mere blink of an eye in cosmic time.

they found several virtual Milky Ways which boast a plane of satellite galaxies very similar to the one seen through telescopes.

Study co-author Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics in the Institute for Computational Cosmology, at Durham University, U.K., said, "The strange alignment of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies in the sky had perplexed astronomers for decades, so much so that it was deemed to pose a profound challenge to cosmological orthodoxy.

"But thanks to the amazing data from the Gaia satellite and the laws of physics, we now know that the plane is just a chance alignment, a matter of being in the right place at the right time, just as the constellations of stars in the sky.

BeAChooser wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 8:24 pm

Robertus Maximus wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 12:45 pm https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3 ... 213/ac982a

Galactic and extragalactic filaments are produced in totally different environments, namely, the nucleus of a normal galaxy and the intracluster medium. Their length scales, energy densities, and other characteristic parameters differ by orders of magnitude. In spite of these differences, we argue that similar processes operate in both systems motivated by their similar morphology and the similar dimensionless ratios of their physical parameters.

This artist's impression shows the expected distribution of dark matter in the Milky Way galaxy as a blue halo of material surrounding the galaxy.

Robertus Maximus wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 12:45 pm https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3 ... 213/ac982a

Robertus Maximus wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:43 am "Now astronomers are bemused to find young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way."

"But why a spiral?"

Birkeland Currents, perhaps?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.14720.pdf

Mainstream (i.e., gnome indoctrinated) astrophysicists are simply blind to what's staring them in the face.

Robertus Maximus wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 4:21 pm "On closer inspection, the team noticed that the gas converges at various points along the filament, which led them to conclude that the hydrogen gas accumulates into large clouds at those locations. They further speculate that atomic gas will gradually condense into a molecular form in those environments."

""However, many questions remain unanswered," Syed added."

Many questions will remain unanswered if your model is wrong. The team concluded that hydrogen gas accumulated at various into large clouds- how? In an electric model of galaxies such 'convergences' would be viewed as pinches in galactic scale Birkeland currents.