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Bright flash in February was Black Hole Jet pointed at earth

12/04/2022 8:13 PM

This is kind of interesting. A bright flash detected in February was apparently a jet from a black hole coincidentally pointed at earth.

"On February 11, astronomers saw a distant flash of light that seemed to come from a source as bright as a quadrillion suns. They alerted other scientists to the event, and several telescopes quickly pivoted to focus on the flash. Now, two teams of researchers have identified its source: a black hole feasting in the distant universe.

Black holes are famously dark; their gravitational pull is so strong that even light cannot escape their event horizons. In this case, the bright flash was caused by how energetically the black hole consumed its meal, a star that had passed too close to the ravenous compact object. Details of this luminous feast were published today in papers in Nature and Nature Astronomy."

Bright Flash Detected in February Was a Black Hole Jet Pointed Straight at Earth (yahoo.com)

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12/05/2022 6:04 AM

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12/05/2022 7:48 AM

That's awful.

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12/07/2022 4:53 PM

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12/05/2022 5:19 PM

The EM field of an electric wire can be put in superposition by coiling the wire. But the wire never can be put in that state. And neither can gravity. Our "black hole" appears as a rotating braid of plasma to me. A rotating plasma torus/toroid.

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12/05/2022 5:35 PM

Any mass or matter than finds it's way to the interior of that torus, will find itself in one of two gigantic ionized bubbles.

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12/06/2022 12:48 AM

The matter in those bubbles is rarefied, like the solar wind, at fast velocity and can not recombine. It will not shine. Those bubbles might be many, many times larger than we can detect. They have been filling for eons. Those bubbles might contain more matter than the disk. Imagine the MW disk, being uniform in density with the disk matter we detect now. Rarefied. How much would the disk shine then?

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12/06/2022 1:19 AM

Is our disk contracting and blowing bubbles, or are the bubbles contracting and expanding our disk?

Maybe they oscillate every billion years. Maybe they do neither. Or maybe both continue expanding.

The art of speculation has hit it's zenith with probability and spacetime for boundaries.

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12/06/2022 4:06 AM

If speculation with probability and spacetime is valid, then my speculations with the restrictions of classical science, and physically explaining(with a classical narrative), giving the same results, then my speculations are just as valid. Maybe even more so.

When ever you hear that a classical theory has been disproven by the math, remember that nature does not rotate in 2D, only mathematicians do. Nature's rotations are 3D.......and pi, is not valid.

Math is only a tool. Our most valuable, but also our most mis-used and deceiving tool. No one should be allowed to pick up a pencil, until after the true motion has been discerned.

Please note, numbers are self related. We learn numbers without labels, because the NUMBERS are related. When you quantify and describe everything in the universe with numbers, YOU have related everything with math, nature did not. Nature has no use for numbers. There is no spiritual meaning in math. It's totally man conceived. Man impinged the so called math of the "universe" concept.

2D mathematics and the failure for the Z motion measurement when observing orbits, is why we think orbits are elliptical. But they are actually a one turn circular helix. An orbit is one small rotation within and perpendicular to, one large rotation. TWO angular accelerations.

How does spacetime explain that? All current gravity theories have to agree with this ellipse, to be considered valid. Why can't we simulate 3 orbits? Anomalies?

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