Spooky Alignment of Quasars Across Billions of Light-years — Science Release — ESO1438

European Southern Observatory ^ | 19 November 2014

[Swordmaker]

The alignments in the new data, on scales even bigger than current predictions from simulations, may be a hint that there is a missing ingredient in our current models of the cosmos,”

[Swordmaker]

European Southern Observatory discovers that found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances of billions of light-years. The team has also found that the rotation axes of these quasars tend to be aligned with the vast structures in the cosmic web in which they reside. "The alignments in the new data, on scales even bigger than current predictions from simulations, may be a hint that there is a missing ingredient in our current models of the cosmos” — Electric Universe Ping!

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[shibumi]

Could be the Cosmic Faraday Cage.

Or better yet...

It’s the fibrin that holds together the universe like a massive electric blood clot. Annihilation will occur when the host takes its Cosmic Low-Dose Aspirin.

[SpaceBar]

Even on cursory examination of the larger photo linked, it is pretty undeniable that there is a large scale filamentous like structure to the universe. Bubbles of matter, energy, and time that span nearly incomprehensible scales.

[Swordmaker]

It’s the fibrin that holds together the universe like a massive electric blood clot. Annihilation will occur when the host takes its Cosmic Low-Dose Aspirin.

Let's hope He holds of for a few more of His days before He does that.

[sauron]

Shocking. Disturbing. Wondrous. Strange. Interesting.

This will keep us intellectually entertained as to "why?" for the remainder of my lifetime, at least.

Such a wondrous time to be alive, 2014.

[EternalVigilance]

“The alignments in the new data, on scales even bigger than current predictions from simulations, may be a hint that there is a missing ingredient in our current models of the cosmos,” concludes Dominique Sluse.

LOL ... ya think?

[Swordmaker]

It’s the fibrin that holds together the universe like a massive electric blood clot. Annihilation will occur when the host takes its Cosmic Low-Dose Aspirin.

On the other hand, we have to remember we are looking back into time several billion years. . . so He may already be reaching for the Celestial Aspirin Bottle. . . or the capsule is on it's way down the gullet!

[SpaceBar]

Spheres pack in a lowest energy state. I actually would expect no less of the universe to obey some seemingly mundane physical law that manifests as a pattern.

[RandallFlagg]

As long as we all don’t get blowed up before I finish Far Cry 4, I’m good.

;-)

[Swordmaker]

This will keep us intellectually entertained as to "why?" for the remainder of my lifetime, at least.

Nah, next Tuesday, at 4:13, they'll release another press release, which will show up like this one on page G-24, announcing that what they thought was an alignment was a glitch in the tuning of their radio. They'll explain they were actually picking up four different broadcasts of a reflection of "Lost in Space" reruns bouncing off of Alpha Centauri A, B and C, (they'll have no explanation where the fourth reflection came from, just to leave something for the crackpot fringe to worry about) and we will be back to random scattering of axes and galaxies. Can't have anything looking like "order" or "intelligent design" in the Universe, you know.

[PGalt]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Bush’s fault.

[Bullish]

Need I say it?

[dagogo redux]

The shear visual beauty, coupled with the awe of what it represents, is breathtaking. Thanks for posting this.

“The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.” J. B. S. Haldane, in Possible Worlds and Other Papers (1927).

[biggerten]

The sign at the edge of the universe “This end up.”

[Salamander]

God’s knitting basket.

[x_plus_one]

Spooky action at a distance may be all about us.

http://www.theprinciplemovie.com/

[epluribus_2]

Nah, they these are just hubs and routers of the reeealy big cosmic WiFi network. Just waiting for our zip code to get service.

[epluribus_2]

Sure he was not talking about San Francisco?