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Old 07-11-2018, 07:50 AM
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ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain

When you think the universe cannot get any weirder something like that comes up. https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1836/
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Thanks Marc,

This is a very significant discovery and not just some galactic art installation.

It has been conjectured for a while that super-massive black holes
at the core of a galaxy are strongly correlated with galaxy formation
but a Taiwanese team using ALMA earlier this year concluded there was
none.

However, this more recent discovery, using ALMA and MUSE, looks like
what astronomers have been looking for. There had even been some
computer modelling theorizing it recently.

So here we have a super-massive black hole doing what had been predicted
including with molecule formation. Possibly even creating molecules such as water.

So if this type of mechanism ends up being common in most galaxies,
it could well be one more piece of the puzzle as to why we are all here.
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See this background on a computer modelling prediction
from Northwestern University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Exploration in Astrophysics (CIERA) January 30, 2018 :-

https://news.northwestern.edu/storie...ack-hole-winds
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See this background on a computer modelling prediction
from Northwestern University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Exploration in Astrophysics (CIERA) January 30, 2018 :-

https://news.northwestern.edu/storie...ack-hole-winds
Very interesting article. The next telescope has its work all cut out.
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