Completely Clueless, When It Comes To Jehovah's Creative Powers

[Friends just call me Ross]

Scientists have found what 'appears' to be

the largest 'feature' in the 'observable' universe.

 

http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/2693-5-billion-light-years-across-the-largest-feature-in-the-universe

 

A five billion light year wide discovery:

 

 

 

 

An image of the distribution of gamma ray bursts on the sky at a distance of 7 billion light years, centered on the newly discovered ring. The positions of the GRBs are marked by blue dots and the Milky Way is indicated for reference, running from left to right across the image. 

 

 

A Hungarian-U.S. team of astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the observable universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts – and hence galaxies – 5 billion light years across. Their work will appear in the September 2015 issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous events in the universe, releasing as much energy in a few seconds as the sun does over its 10 billion year lifetime. They are thought to be the result of massive stars collapsing into black holes. Their huge luminosity helps astronomers to map out the location of distant galaxies, something the team exploited.

The GRBs that make up the newly discovered ring were observed using a variety of space- and ground-based observatories. They appear to be at very similar distances from us – around 7 billion light years – in a circle 36° across on the sky, or more than 70 times the diameter of the full moon. This implies that the ring is more than 5 billion light years across. According to Professor Lajos Balazs of Konkoly Observatory in Budapest, who led the study, there is only a 1 in 20,000 probability of the GRBs being in this distribution by chance.

Most current models indicate that the structure of the cosmos is uniform on the largest scales. This ‘Cosmological Principle’ is backed up by observations of the early universe and its microwave background signature. Other recent results and this new discovery challenge the principle, which sets a theoretical limit of 1.2 billion light years for the largest structures. The newly discovered ring is almost five times as large. Balazs said:

If the ring represents a real spatial structure, then it has to be seen nearly face-on because of the small variations of GRB distances around the object’s center. The ring could though instead be a projection of a sphere, where the GRBs all occurred within a 250 million year period, a short timescale compared with the age of the universe.

A spheroidal ring projection would mirror the strings of clusters of galaxies seen to surround voids in the universe; voids and string-like formations are seen and predicted by many models of the cosmos. The newly-discovered ring is however at least ten times larger than known voids.
Prof Balazs comments:

If we are right, this structure contradicts the current models of the universe. It was a huge surprise to find something this big – and we still don’t quite understand how it came to exist at all.

The team now want to find out more about the ring, and establish whether the known processes for galaxy formation and large scale structure could have led to its creation, or if astronomers need to radically revise their theories of the evolution of the cosmos.

 

Bottom line: A team of astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the observable universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts – and hence galaxies – 5 billion light years across.

Read more from the Royal Astronomical Society

 

Yup.  Completely clueless, even though Jehovah has supplied them with ample clues.  

 

19  "...what may be known about God is manifest among them, for God made it manifest to them. 20  For his invisible [qualities] are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable; 21  because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God nor did they thank him, but they became empty-headed in their reasonings and their unintelligent heart became darkened. 22  Although asserting they were wise, they became foolish." --Romans 1:19-22

 

[JSmith]

Its things like this that make me skeptical about "dark matter". It seems like something they just made up because they couldnt get their math to come out right and out of an assumtion they already saw all there was to see. Still finding more though.

[normadenardo]

The blue dots look like a fibonacci spiral to me.  

[Friends just call me Ross]

The blue dots look like a fibonacci spiral to me.  

 

That's the same thought that I had when I first looked at it.  

 

 

 

 

Readin', writin', and logarithmics.   

Gotta love math.   

[RaymondG]

Further evidence of the true meaning of 2 Timothy 3:7?