Brightest-Ever Space Explosion

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BeAChooser
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Brightest-Ever Space Explosion

Unread post by BeAChooser » Wed Oct 26, 2022 7:08 pm

LOL! Hopium is all that mainstream astrophysics has these days …

https://www.quantamagazine.org/brightes ... -20221026/
Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter

The explosion was a long gamma-ray burst, a cosmic event where a massive dying star unleashes powerful jets of energy as it collapses into a black hole or neutron star. This particular burst was so bright that it oversaturated the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, an orbiting NASA telescope designed in part to observe such events. … snip … The burst even appears to have caused Earth’s ionosphere, the upper layer of Earth’s atmosphere, to swell in size for several hours. “The fact you can change Earth’s ionosphere from an object halfway across the universe is pretty incredible,” said Doug Welch, an astronomer at McMaster University in Canada.
The object being far away assumes that redshift really means what they HOPE it means. Maybe it doesn't?
Astronomers cheekily called it the BOAT — “brightest of all time” … snip … The initial analysis suggests that there are two reasons why the BOAT was so bright. First, it occurred about 2.4 billion light-years from Earth
Oh … so “halfway across the universe” is 2.4 billion light years? Gee … haven’t they been claiming that the farthest galaxy from earth HD1) is 13.5 billion light years away? 2.4/13.5 = 0.5? Oh wait … my mistake. The farthest star is one given the name Earendel … and it’s 28 billion years away. So 2.4/28 is what equals half. I see. Must be the new math journalists are being taught.
The initial analysis suggests that there are two reasons why the BOAT was so bright. First, it occurred about 2.4 billion light-years from Earth — fairly close for gamma-ray bursts (though well outside of our galaxy). It’s also likely that the BOAT’s powerful jet was pointed toward us. The two factors combined to make this the kind of event that occurs only once every few hundred years.
So all of sudden the burst is not halfway across the universe … but fairly close … “well outside of our galaxy”. LOL! And it’s bright because there was a jet pointed at us. Ah ... now that actually makes sense. More about that later.
Perhaps the most consequential observation happened in China. There, in the Sichuan province, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) tracks high-energy particles from space. In the history of gamma-ray burst astronomy, researchers have seen only a few hundred high-energy photons coming from these objects. LHAASO saw 5,000 from this one event. … snip … Among those detections was a suspected high-energy photon at 18 teraelectron volts (TeV) — four times higher than anything seen from a gamma-ray burst before and more energetic than the highest energies achievable by the Large Hadron Collider. Such a high-energy photon should have been lost on the way to Earth, absorbed by interactions with the universe’s background light.

So how did it get here?
Well, naturally, the mainstream turns to it’s dark matter gnome … the one they haven’t actually found despite 50 years and billions of dollars searching for it. Here’s what they now theorize …
following the gamma-ray burst, a high-energy photon was converted into an axion-like particle.


Notice … not an axion, which by the way they still haven’t found either, but an “axion-LIKE” particle … a new gnome.
The axion-like particle would then travel across the vastness of space unimpeded.
Because, of course, we know the properties of “anion-LIKE” particles, don’t we?
As it arrived at our galaxy, magnetic fields would convert it back into a photon, which would then make its way to Earth.
Again, the best thing about gnomes is that you can have them do whatever you want or need. RIGHT?

The article then goes on to describe how “multiple teams of astrophysicists” have raced to publish this “very incredible discovery.” That’s the way *science* works these days. After all, Nobel Prizes are at stake. And the fact that MULTIPLE TEAMS of scientists had the time to do that with this one little discovery (out out sooooo many) is an indication of how much of YOUR money is being poured into astrophysics these days.

Of course there are skeptics. Apparently more than a few. And for the time being the discoverers are apparently sitting on the detailed data. As one researcher said “If I were sitting on data that had even a few percent chance of being defining proof of dark matter, I would be extraordinarily cautious at the moment.” I agree … but I wonder how he came up with that estimate of a “few percent”? LOL!

Then the article demonstrates how little they actually do know.
Even without LHAASO’s data, the sheer amount of light seen from the event could enable scientists to answer some of the biggest questions about gamma-ray bursts, including major puzzles about the jet itself. “How is the jet launched? What is going on in the jet as it is propagating out into space?” said Tyler Parsotan, an astrophysicist at Goddard. “Those are really big questions.”
They are indeed. After all this time, they still don’t understand jets. They have crazy theories to explain how they are “launched” … why else would they still be puzzled about this. And they don’t know how the jets stay intact (coherent?) for the immense distances they’ve been observed traveling from their source. Maybe that’s just another indications that they don’t understand electromagnetic effects on plasma? How could they when they ignore them so frequently and incorporate more gnomes into their understanding of those physics … like frozen-in magnetic fields. Just saying …

And there’s more doubts expressed in the article …
Whether gamma-ray bursts result in a black hole or a neutron star at the core of the collapsed star is also an open question. A preliminary analysis of the BOAT suggests that the former happened in this case. “There’s so much energy in the jet it basically has to be a black hole,” said Burns.
Yes, just like there basically has to be dark matter. For that matter, how they really know that neutron stars exist? Because their models tell them so … like they tell them dark matter exists?
What is certain is that this is a cosmic incident that will not be eclipsed for many, many lifetimes. “We’ll all be long dead before we get the chance to do this again,” said Burns.
Ah certainty. How many times have we heard that before?

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Re: Brightest-Ever Space Explosion

Unread post by Maol » Thu Oct 27, 2022 9:31 am

Did this event bless us with a detectable gravity wave?

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