Re: Big Bang Refuted--Again
- From: John C. Polasek <jpolasek@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:39:13 -0500
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:15:12 -0600, Mitchell Jones
<mjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
***{The following article is on the Discover website. Inconveniently, a
supermassive black hole appears to have formed before the first galaxy,
if we accept the current iteration of the constantly mutating "Big Bang"
theory. In reality, this is just more evidence to be added to the
already massive heap, indicating that the universe always existed.
"Astronomers," however, never see it that way. Instead, the current
version of the Big Bang theory will simply be "tweaked" until it fits
the new fact, giving rise to Big Bang Theory #10,762, which will be
treated as absolute, undeniable fact, just like the previous 10,761
versions were treated, and anyone who doubts it will be subjected to
jeers and catcalls, just as those who doubted the first 10,761 versions
were subjected to jeers and catcalls. --MJ)***
Black Hole Is Most Distant Ever Found
June 7, 2007 ? An ongoing survey of the heavens has spotted the most
distant, and therefore earliest, giant black hole in the universe.
The object, called a quasar and given the catchy name CFHQS J2329-0301,
was found with three other extremely distant quasars in the
Canada-France High-z Quasar Survey, which uses an imaging instrument
called the MegaCam on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT).
"This is indeed the most distant," said Christian Veillet, director of
the CFHT. But he wouldn't be surprised, he said, if something even more
remote turns up soon. "They are really in the middle of the survey, so
there are more to come."
The previously most distant quasar was sighted by astronomers doing the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey."That is an exciting discovery indeed!" said
Sloan Survey and Princeton University astronomer Michael Strauss. "We
knew that our record would have to be broken eventually."
The team's discovery was presented on June 7 by University of Ottawa
astronomer Chris Willott at the meeting of the Canadian Astronomical
Society (CASCA) in Kingston, Ontario.
The distance of CFHQS J2329-0301 is about 13 billion light-years, say
the scientists. That figure comes from splitting the quasar's light into
a rainbow of colors and seeing how far to the red side of the spectrum
some telltale lines have shifted. The greater the red-shift, the greater
the distance.
As for how there can be any light from a black hole about 500 million
times the mass of the sun, it comes from the superheated material that's
falling into it.
Because the light from the quasar has traveled 13 billion years to reach
Earth, it offers two interesting avenues of study for researchers. On
the one hand, the light suggests something about the nature of the very
earliest galaxies, which are generally required to build such gigantic
black holes.
The problem is, 13 billion years ago is just 700 million years after the
Big Bang. That's generally thought to be a time before galaxies were
constructed, according to one of the discovery team members, John
Hutchings of the National Research Council Canada's Herzberg Institute
of Astrophysics.
It could be that galaxies formed earlier than expected or something else
entirely is going on. It's a puzzle, says Hutchings.
[Source: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/07/quasar_spa.html.]
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If I seem to be ignoring you, consider the possibility
that you are in my killfile. --MJ
So, how much was the redshift?
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