{"id":372,"date":"2016-02-12T15:32:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T13:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2016-02-12T15:32:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T13:32:59","slug":"galactic-core-fission-event-in-edge-on-disc-galaxy-j11262944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Galactic Core Fission Event in Edge-On Disc Galaxy J1126+2944"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Composite image from the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory which shows the galaxy SDSS J112659.54+294442.8. The arrow points to the galactic core fragment that fisioned from the galaxy’s central core. Image credit: NASA \/ ESA \/ Hubble Team \/ Chandra Team \/ Julia M. Comerford et al.<\/p><\/div>\n

Posted by P. LaViolette, February 4, 2016<\/p>\n

In the June 2015 issue of the\u00a0Astrophysical Journal<\/em>\u00a0a team of astronomers led by Dr Julia Comerford of the University of Colorado, Boulder\u00a0report\u00a0their observations of the central region of the\u00a0distant edge-on disc galaxy SDSS J1126+2944 at a redshift of z = 0.102; see their paper at\u00a0http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1504.01391.pdf?<\/a>. \u00a0The arrow in the above composite\u00a0X-ray and optical image of the galaxy’s nucleus points to an ultra luminous X-ray source (intermediate mass mother star) that has been designated as J1126+2944SE. \u00a0It is estimated to have a mass between 100 and 1 million solar masses\u00a0and\u00a0is found to be\u00a0situated within about 2.2 kiloparsecs (7000 ly) of the galaxy’s active core.<\/p>\n

The interpretation provided by subquantum kinetics is that we are witnessing here the rare event\u00a0of\u00a0the fissioning of a galaxy’s supermassive core. \u00a0Such events occur\u00a0from\u00a0time to time\u00a0in the life of a growing mother star. \u00a0Mother star’s continuously grow in mass due to the process of\u00a0matter creation that takes place within them. \u00a0As a result, they\u00a0grow in size and in some instances fission producing a daughter mother star, usually of lower mass. \u00a0Mother stars also lose mass by continuously\u00a0expelling an ionized gas wind, especially during times when they are in their active phase. \u00a0Such core fissioning, in my opinion, is what produces satellite galaxies, such as the dwarf elliptical satellites seen around our nearest neighbor the Andromeda galaxy. \u00a0The Large Magellenic Cloud and the Small Magellenic Cloud also likely originated from expulsions, in this case from our own Galactic core.<\/p>\n

Comerford et al. note that the outlying core is relatively devoid of stars. \u00a0This is to be expected in the case of a recent core fission event since the expelled mother star would\u00a0not have had sufficient time to build up the cluster of\u00a0stars that usually is seen to surround such supermassive objects.<\/p>\n

For a news report about this finding see:\u00a0http:\/\/www.sci-news.com\/astronomy\/pair-black-holes-distant-galaxy-03546.html<\/a><\/p>\n

As you will see from reading the above news report, as well as the Astrophysical Journal paper, the authors have interpreted their finding within the standard big bang cosmological paradigm which assumes that galaxies grow only through merging with neighboring galaxies. \u00a0So rather than a fissioning process, they interpret the close proximity of this ultra luminous X-ray source (ULX) to the galaxy’s core as an indication that the parent\u00a0galaxy is capturing an incoming galaxy. \u00a0The problem with this interpretation is that the ULX is not embedded in any incoming galaxy. \u00a0In fact, it is even devoid of a surrounding stellar cloud. \u00a0Comerford et al. propose that the core appears bare because the “incoming galaxy” was stripped of its stars, but admit that J1126+29944\u00a0shows no signs of tidal disruption.<\/p>\n

But doesn’t it seem odd that this “captured core, stripped of its stars” would happen to reside\u00a0so close to the parent galaxy’s core. \u00a0In terms of galactic dimensions, 7000 light years is very close. Also note that it is rather\u00a0closely aligned with the parent galaxy’s galactic plane. \u00a0Either all this is a total coincidence, or the probabilities look diminishingly small that J1126+29944SE\u00a0was from an incoming galaxy and\u00a0far more probable that it originated from a core ejection. \u00a0The galactic core fission interpretation appears to better explains the data and adds to the abundant evidence already available which supports the core fissioning hypothesis. \u00a0For more evidence about galactic core fissioning read\u00a0Subquantum Kinetics<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the June 2015 issue of the Astrophysical Journal a team of astronomers led by Dr Julia Comerford of the University of Colorado, Boulder report their observations of the central region of the distant edge-on disc galaxy J1126+2944; see their paper at http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1504.01391.pdf?. The arrow in the above composite X-ray and optical image of the galaxy’s nucleus points to an ultra luminous X-ray source (intermediate mass mother star) estimated to have a mass between 100 and 1 million solar masses. It is found to be situated within about 2.2 kiloparsecs (7000 ly) of the galaxy’s active core. Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}