Year: 2022

BEYOND THE UNEXPECTED. “Simple estimates suggest that about half and possibly all the antimatter is coming from X-ray binaries. We expected something unexpected, but we did not expect this.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER FACTORIES. “For small black holes, astrophysical jets are observed to contain a thin haze of electrons and positrons streaming out as plasma at high speeds. Existing models of black-hole behaviour indicate that particle–antiparticle pairs are produced inside intense magnetic and electric fields that swirl near a black hole’s event horizon.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER JETS. “Simulated jets form near the black hole’s magnetic poles, where chaotic braids of twisted magnetic fields shoot out into interstellar space. These fields carry away some of the black hole’s energy and rotational momentum, as well as create more electrons and positrons.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

TIP OF THE ICEBERG. “And in one of the most extreme examples known to science, a single fruit fly gene provides the recipe for more than 38,000 different proteins.” The end of “one gene, one protein”. https://lnkd.in/dSFn-bGv View in LinkedIn

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TWISTED MAGNETIC FIELDS. “These observations are also consistent with the gravitational repulsion of antimatter from powerful gravitational fields.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

DEVIL’S ADVOCATE. “A major counter argument to the sustained presence of antimatter in the Cosmos is that matter and antimatter galaxies would collide resulting in powerful explosions and signature gamma radiation.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

THE ARGUMENT. “However, if matter and antimatter superclusters formed in the early universe and they repelled one another, then matter and antimatter galaxies would be separated and therefore would not collide.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

COLLIDING GALAXIES. “On the contrary, galaxies within matter superclusters are predicted to collide. In Laniakea, the Milky Way Andromeda galaxies are predicted to collide in 4.5 billion years based on data from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will begin to distort each other with tidal pull in 3.75 billion years. The resulting amalgamated galaxy, has been nicknamed Milkomeda or Milkdromeda.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn

COLLISION HISTORY. “Galactic collisions have been common and Andromeda previously collided with at least one other galaxy. New research suggests that our galaxy was shaped by a merger with a dwarf galaxy dubbed ‘Gaia-Enceladus’ ten billion years ago and dwarf galaxies such as the ‘Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal’ galaxy are currently colliding and merging into the Milky Way galaxy.” https://lnkd.in/dhrW--56 View in LinkedIn