James Webb Space Telescope

[0rion]

Anticlockwise is more of a British thing which makes sense given the link is a uk link

 

[0rion]

I’ve never heard the term anticlockwise before

Anyone know if there a specific reason to use that word or if there is a scientific difference between that and counterclockwise?

Or just an odd word choice?
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A new study of 263 galaxies has provided fresh evidence to support a theory that our universe is the interior of a black hole.

Using data from Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers at Kansas State University in the US discovered that the majority of the galaxies were rotating in the same direction.

This goes against previous assumptions that our universe is isotropic, meaning there should be an equal number of galaxies rotating clockwise and anticlockwise.

“It is not clear what causes this to happen, but there are two primary possible explanations,” said Lior Shamir, associate professor of computer science at Kansas State University.

“One explanation is that the universe was born rotating. That explanation agrees with theories such as black hole cosmology, which postulates that the entire universe is the interior of a black hole.”……..

New Nasa data hints we could be living inside a black hole

Black hole cosmology suggests our entire universe formed inside a black hole from another universe

www.independent.co.uk

I wish they would've talked more about how that can be. I've always understood black holes to have so much gravitational mass that they crush things down on a molecular level. If that's the case then how can we be inside a black hole?

 

[HoustonSaint68]

I wish they would've talked more about how that can be. I've always understood black holes to have so much gravitational mass that they crush things down on a molecular level. If that's the case then how can we be inside a black hole?

Indeed.

Whenever I start to read Dummies Guide articles to [quantum physics, quantum mechanics, black holes, bending space, etc., etc.), at some point I just hit a mental wall and give up. So I had the same question as you, but I'm sure with a much more clueless face: "Whaaaa??"

 

[Arathrael]

I wish they would've talked more about how that can be. I've always understood black holes to have so much gravitational mass that they crush things down on a molecular level. If that's the case then how can we be inside a black hole?

I don't understand this stuff either, but the vague impression I have is that the theory is, instead of collapsing into a gravitational singularity, the matter rebounds which forms one side of an Einstein-Rosen bridge, which becomes a new universe. And we'd be in that universe.

 

[0rion]

I don't really believe in afterlife but if there is I sure hope all this stuff is explained to me when I'm gone. I'd rather it be explained to me now but if I have to wait I guess I will. I've often thought that there's a chance that we're just a speck belonging to some other world. Like does an ant know they're an ant?

 

[HoustonSaint68]

I don't really believe in afterlife but if there is I sure hope all this stuff is explained to me when I'm gone. I'd rather it be explained to me now but if I have to wait I guess I will. I've often thought that there's a chance that we're just a speck belonging to some other world. Like does an ant know they're an ant?

Absolutely! I mean, I'm not suicidal or anything, but the thought of living for eternity (or even another fifty years) with a flawed human-like brain/form seems like the very definition of hell to me. Luckily, I don't believe in an afterlife but the two cool things would be if you could have all of your questions answered, and if you could go back and see your life as it ACTUALLY happened, not as you think it did.

Sometimes in my sillier moments, I imagine a conversation with Jesus of Nazareth in which he says, "Yeah, it's amazing how close The Life of Brian was to how it actually happened!"

 

[Optimus Prime]

anticlockwise = counterclockwise.

Anticlockwise is more of a British thing which makes sense given the link is a uk link

I thought so, like I said I’ve never heard that word even in the British shows and articles

Seemed a bit weird

“This decision will either be right or anti-right”

“Do you mean wrong??”

 

[Arathrael]

I thought so, like I said I’ve never heard that word even in the British shows and articles

Seemed a bit weird

“This decision will either be right or anti-right”

“Do you mean wrong??”

Can confirm we say anticlockwise.

It's not that weird, my antiargument there is that we don't use anti for everything where you'd use counter. E.g. one antipoint, we don't have kitchen antis. That'd be weird.

Right, got to put the antipane on the bed before playing a bit more antistrike.

 

[Optimus Prime]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop.

The composite image makes it look as though the overflow of stellar material is the billowing contrail of a rocket on its way to the galaxy. NASA and the European Space Agency released the photo on Monday.

The outflow is about 625 light-years from Earth in one of the closest star-forming regions of our Milky Way galaxy, according to NASA. A light-year is equivalent to almost 6 trillion miles.

Launched in 2021 as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb observed the scene in the infrared. NASA said in a statement it was “a lucky alignment” of the two unrelated objects.

NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope captured the same shot in 2006, with scientists then dubbing the stellar jet “the cosmic tornado.” But it was too fuzzy to make out the background galaxy and other details. Webb is the largest and most powerful observatory ever launched into space…….

Webb Space Telescope captures a star in the making and a galaxy far, far away

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop.

apnews.com

 

[fred8615]

New Insights Into Little Red Dots. An Early Phase of Black Hole Growth

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the Universe. It's also revealed a few surprises. One of these is the appearance of small, highly redshifted objects nicknamed

www.universetoday.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Neptune's auroras are captured in great detail by NASA's Webb telescope

NAS's James Webb Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s glowing auroras in the best detail yet. Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989.

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