Scientists detect an eerie alignment of black holes, suggesting an underlying Dark Matter filament to the universe

THERE’S something odd about black holes. Not only do they twist the laws of physics into infinity, they’ve now been discovered to be eerily aligned.

Or at least it seems so. The science isn’t fully “in”. But what we have is highly tantalising.

And nobody knows why.

Fresh data gathered by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) indicates there is an unusual alignment between enormous interstellar objects called quasars. Does this mean there is an underlying structure on a cosmic scale?

“This is really cool,” says Swinbourne University astrophysicist Dr Alan Duffy. “Quasars are some of the brightest things in the universe, yet they’re actually caused by the darkest objects known — supermassive black holes.”

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link to paper
http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1438/eso1438a.pdf

>interstellar objects called quasars

Um, quasars are the active cores of early galaxies. Describing them as “interstellar” is like calling distant stars “interplanetary”.

Nonetheless it’s certainly interesting if verified.

Maybe they get a bonus for mentioning movie titles.

Why do these guys go automatically to DM explanations? Probably haven’t got a hypothesis involving vacuum torque developed by matter interacting with zero vacuum field.

:P

Postpocelipse said:

Why do these guys go automatically to DM explanations? Probably haven’t got a hypothesis involving vacuum torque developed by matter interacting with zero vacuum field.

:P

Nah, you’re both wrong. The universe is spinning with a nonzero angular momentum that gets magnified as huge amounts of matter shrink in to the smallest possible radius – like tornado spins matching the spin of the Earth more often than not.

But I don’t really believe that. I think it’s just a statistical outlier. We have enough evidence that galaxy spins are isotropic, and quasars are just active galaxy centres.

mollwollfumble said:

Postpocelipse said:

Why do these guys go automatically to DM explanations? Probably haven’t got a hypothesis involving vacuum torque developed by matter interacting with zero vacuum field.

:P

We have enough evidence that galaxy spins are isotropic.

Is that important to their investigation?

Postpocelipse said:

mollwollfumble said:

Postpocelipse said:

Why do these guys go automatically to DM explanations? Probably haven’t got a hypothesis involving vacuum torque developed by matter interacting with zero vacuum field.

:P

We have enough evidence that galaxy spins are isotropic.

Is that important to their investigation?

Hmm, now that you come to mention it, I’ve never seen a study comparing the spin alignment of an AGN to that of its parent galaxy. I would expect the two to be aligned. (Checks Web) Yes, the spins of quasars are aligned with those of their host galaxy. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808187

Oh wait, I’ve just realised, this is quite funny. Quasar spin is aligned over large areas of the sky. That’s because Quasars are always brightest along the spin axis. So the brightest quasars at any distance from us have a spin axis pointing directly towards us. Therefore the spin axis is aligned – with us.

Quasars aligning with the large scale structure seems inevitable? The filaments are the result of a direction of gravitic collapse being established in the early baryonic matter of the universe. In the extreme conditions of the early universe this collapse may have been regulated simply through the processes of initial cooling. The environment would have been one in which SR effects predominated over those of GR. Contrast between cooler and hot may have been less established by atomic radiance rather than complexity, ie, through SR FoR, fusion products with greater mass and density would have contrasted with less complex matter as cooler, even if the radiant energies were equivalent. At least, this would be my simplest explanation of the compression waves that have established the large scale structure of the universe.

On the large scale I’d imagine the filaments are essentially the product of the first lightning. Pressure from the initial expansion seeks an outlet which is established through fusion of some baryonic matter into more complex matter. This is immediately destroyed by a universal lightning discharge when charge displacement is initiated by the periodic fusion. This discharge creates the filament structure now apparent.

Postpocelipse said:

On the large scale I’d imagine the filaments are essentially the product of the first lightning. Pressure from the initial expansion seeks an outlet which is established through fusion of some baryonic matter into more complex matter. This is immediately destroyed by a universal lightning discharge when charge displacement is initiated by the periodic fusion. This discharge creates the filament structure now apparent.

I would then go on to assume that the acceleration of spatial expansion coincided with this initial lightning event as the lightning constituents generate a moment of greater particulate velocity.The filaments in which most of matter now resides should have been the paths taken by this initial discharge and the subsequent absorption of matter into these filaments might have been initiated by residual magnetic resonance, as gaseous metals may have been momentarily abundant.

My evaluation of that scenario is that Ph imbalance introduced destabalisation into the BB with a lightning discharge on a universal scale.