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A new scientific paper describes an unprecedented
and “mind-boggling event” around a so-called black hole;
an event so rapid, energetic and completely unexpected to astronomers,
it challenges the bedrock of black hole theory.
In 2018, an effort to scan the sky for supernovae
called the All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae,
detected a surprising, sudden leap in the brightness of an active galactic nucleus
to about 40 times its normal luminosity. This increase in brightness inspired a
team of scientists to keep their eye on the object.
To their astonishment, after the initial outburst,
the “black hole corona's brightness” then dropped by a factor of ten
thousand over less than one year. A co-author of a new paper on the discovery stated,
”We expect that luminosity changes this big should vary on timescales of many
thousands to millions of years. But in this object, we saw change by
10,000 over a year, and it even changed by a factor of 100 in eight
hours, which is just totally unheard of and really mind-boggling.”
In fact the conundrum of cosmo- logical entities such as galaxies,
quasars and stars experiencing seemingly impossibly rapid evolutionary changes, is
an increasingly common problem in astronomy.
This includes quiet galaxies that have suddenly transformed into blazing
quasars in the span of just hundreds of days.
And astronomers have been just as astonished to see quasars
”turning off” in an equally impossibly short time span.
As noted in a 2016 New Scientist report, ”Astronomers expect quasars to use up
their fuel and settle down into quiet galaxies -
a process that should take hundreds of thousands of years.
So last year, when a dozen quasars were spotted shutting down in just hundreds
of days, it was a shock.” “What's more, one quasar
appeared to turn on several years after turning off... The real
surprise is the time scale. Previously, astronomers thought it should
take thousands to millions of years to funnel enough
gas onto a supermassive black hole for it to spawn a quasar.
It definitely shouldn't take less than 10.”
Scientist Eric Morganson says of the discovery, “This is a bit of an
embarrassing moment for black hole and quasar scientists.
The conventional wisdom was found to be dramatically wrong.”
Every bit as inexplicable for conventional cosmology
was the recent discovery of the ”mysterious vanishing”
of over 100 stars, a discovery so inexplicable, it led to open
speculations in science media about alien civilizations.
In the case of the impossibly rapid extinguishment and then reappearance of
the so-called black hole corona, unsurprisingly, the investigators offer
the conjecture that the black hole may have swallowed a wayward star,
triggering a series of events preventing the black hole's accretion disk from
energetically feeding the corona. Unfortunately, in the evolution of the
scientific culture, we have reached a place where no
discovery, no matter how inexplicable, will permit the
consideration that the black hole simply doesn't exist. This includes the
discovery in our own galaxy of active star formation occurring much too
close to the hypothetical black hole at Sagittarius A,
where the required gravitational forces would rip the gas and dust apart before
it could form stars. And it includes the surprising
non-consumption of the gas cloud G2 on its long anticipated collision with
the same hypothetical black hole. The mathematical construct of a region
of space-time where gravity is so powerful that nothing can escape,
is a cornerstone of modern cosmology. Among the many effects astronomers
attribute to black holes, including the spectacular
electromagnetic jets of active galactic nuclei,
they believe that only the black hole can account for the tremendous energies
and mass at the centers of galaxies. However, in
numerous past presentations we've introduced the well-known
experimentally verified plasma physics phenomenon called a plasmoid,
which plasma cosmologists have proposed for decades is the object at the
galactic center and not the black hole. A plasmoid is a
concentration of electromagnetic energy caused by electric currents flowing in
along the spiral arms into the center of the galaxy.
This is seen in plasma laboratories in what is known as the Plasma Focus Device.
A plasma focus is comprised of a central conductor and a surrounding cylinder
with a large voltage difference between them.
And this voltage difference is produced by a large room-full of capacitors
which store electric charge that is released suddenly.
Scientists then create a discharge which runs down the cylinder,
between the cylinder and the central electrode. When the discharge moves to
the end of the electrode, it moves out beyond the end and then
curls back in on itself producing a tiny plasmoid. Dr. Eric J.
Lerner offered a comprehensive and understandable description of the
physics behind the plasma focus in his 1991 book “The Big Bang Never
Happened.” The physics is not based on simple
electrostatic models, but rather it conforms to
electromagnetic theory and is based on electrodynamics,
which is the movement of charged particles. Plasma cosmology has shown
experimentally that galaxies themselves are electrodynamic phenomena.
As early as the 1950’s, the MIT physicist Winston Bostic performed the earliest
research which replicated the forms and motions of galaxies through simple
experiments with electrical discharge. It was also Bostick who coined the term
”plasmoid,” based on the plasma phenomena he observed.
He wrote, “The plasma is emitted not as an amorphous blob,
but in the form of a torus. We shall take the liberty of calling this toroidal
structure a plasmoid, a word which means, plasma-
magnetic entity.” As seen in these illustrations,
the plasmoid has a distinct doughnut shape. We note that in 2019,
science headlines around the world touted the alleged first-ever image of a
black hole at the center of the galaxy M87. However,
this pronouncement excluded any acknowledgment that the celebrated
composite image matches precisely the predicted form of
a plasmoid. In the M87 galaxy, we see an
extraordinary testimony to the plasmoid's energies
in the form of its spectacular, collimated electromagnetic jet,
which is generated where the electromagnetic energies begin to break
down near the center of the “donut.” And
indeed the incredibly powerful electric currents in galactic jets have now been
estimated by radio astronomers. In our own galaxy, in 2017, the discovery
of a two and a half light-year-long, twisting cosmic filament, that appears
directly connected to the supposed black hole at Sagittarius A,
is a clear indication of the electric currents, and thus
the galactic electrical circuitry connected to the central plasmoid.
Indeed many years earlier, astronomers already discovered the electromagnetic
phenomena that one must expect around the galactic plasmoid’s environment.
Astronomers have never adequately explained the incredible structure
called the galactic center radio arc, which is composed of so-called “long
parallel rays” shooting out from the galactic plane.
This structure is connected to the center of the galaxy by
”strange curving filaments,” which scientists call the arches.
These curving filaments are what plasma physicists recognize
as spiraling pairs of field- aligned Birkeland currents,
which are feeding the central plasmoid. Mysterious filaments around the galactic
center have been a problem for astronomers since the early 1980’s.
When the first astronomer Farhad Yusef- Zadeh stumbled across such a filament
which was emitting radio emissions, he assumed it must have been an error
and simply removed it from his data. Since then, astronomers have discovered
more than 100 such filaments. And recently, scientists discovered that
these filaments are encased within a 1,400 light-year-long
hourglass structure composed of radiolobes.
These lobes appear similar to the extraordinary Fermi Bubbles,
which stretch for an incredible 25,000 light-years above and below the galactic
plane. Astronomers can only look to incredible
explosions, shock waves or “black hole feeding
frenzies millions of years ago” to explain these
fantastic electromagnetic structures and energies.
What they've never considered is that the hourglass shape is also the
well-known form of the electromagnetic phenomenon called the Z-pinch,
or the Bennett pinch, a form also seen in both planetary nebulae
and supernovae. This analog was presented by Thunderbolt's chief science advisor
Wal Thornhill. In his 2007 paper the Z-pinch Morphology
of Supernova 1987A and Electric Stars, published in the
renowned peer-reviewed journal IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science.
As we've explained in recent episodes, many decades ago, the founder of plasma
cosmology, Nobel Prize winner Hannes Alfvén,
predicted that stars would form from the Z-pinch effect along vast networks of
filaments. The electrical nature of the filaments
is required to explain the finest observations to date,
including the filament's constant width, which is a complete surprise to
astronomers and an impossible gravitational process.
And it includes the consistent emission of light along the filaments.
For electric currents to be maintained, they must eventually form electric
circuits. And as Thornhill has described, the
clearest analog to a supernova explosion we see on our own planet,
is the violent discharges we sometimes see along electrical transmission lines.
Vast filamentary structures, which have been found emitting astonishing
electromagnetic energies, connect even the largest celestial
objects, such as superclusters across unfathomable cosmic distances.
And related to the cosmic electrical circuitry are the seemingly impossible
cosmic alignments which puzzle astronomers with increasing
regularity, including the baffling alignment of
butterfly nebulae near the Milky Way central bulge, including distant galaxies
that move in sync for no readily apparent reason.
And even including dozens of “black hole jets,”
which have been found spinning out in the same direction in deep space
to the complete bafflement of astrophysicists.
All such discoveries affirm the position that there are no
islands in our Electric Universe. How many cosmic mysteries might finally be
resolved if institutionalized science allows for the
underlying electrical circuitry which these discoveries illuminate? From
the sudden disappearance and reappearance of a so-called black hole
corona, or the vanishing of stars, or the sudden
brightening and fading of distant quasars,
it is appropriate that scientists use a term such as switching on and off, to
describe these phenomena, since it matches the ideal real world
analog of an electric circuit. And it's equally
fitting that the flipping of a light switch
is an enduring image, symbolizing a new and better understanding.
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