Galactic Core Outbursts: The Coming Global Crisis

GALACTIC CORE OUTBURSTS: THE COMING GLOBAL DISASTER

Sunday, 20 April 2008


NASA's recent 'discovery' of the fact that our galaxy is capable of discharging powerful flares from it's nucleus should come as no surprise to followers of alternative astronomical paradigms. a great man named Halton Arp was exiled from the astronomical community for observing this fact decades ago and Dr. Paul LaViolette's observations which showed that these events could pose a potential hazard to life on Earth received an equal level of rejection at the time they were presented. such is the risk of advancing ideas that do not conform to the orthodoxy.

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ScienceDaily (Apr. 16, 2008) — Using NASA, Japanese, and European X-ray satellites, a team of Japanese astronomers has discovered that our galaxy’s central black hole let loose a powerful flare three centuries ago.

[link to www.sciencedaily.com]

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Dr. LaViolette, who is currently president and chief researcher of the Starburst Foundation, was the first to demonstrate that cosmic rays from a galactic core explosion penetrate far outside a galaxy's nucleus to bombard solar systems like our own residing in the spiral arm disk. He coined the word "galactic superwave" to refer to such a cosmic barrage. He has shown that galactic superwaves recur at long intervals and arrive at Earth's doorstep without warning because they travel at near light speed.

Galactic superwaves are a recent discovery. During the early 60's astronomers began to realize that the massive object that forms the core of our Galaxy (the Milky Way), periodically becomes active.(9) The cores of all spiral galaxies cycle through a similar phase. During its active period, our galactic core spews out a fierce quasar-like barrages of cosmic rays, with a total energy output equal to hundreds of thousands of supernova explosions.(10, 11) In some galaxies these active emissions have been observed to equal the energy from billions of supernova explosions.

Until recently, astronomers believed these eruptions were very infrequent, occurring every 10 to 100 million years.(10) They also believed the interstellar magnetic fields, in the Galactic nucleus, would trap the emitted particles in spiral orbits causing them to reach the Earth very slowly.(12) For these reasons, many did not believe that Galactic core explosions posed any immediate threat to the Earth.

However, in 1983 Paul LaViolette presented evidence to the scientific community indicating that:(2 - 4)

Galactic core explosions actually occur about every 13,000 - 26,000 years for major outbursts and more frequently for lesser events.

The emitted cosmic rays escape from the core virtually unimpeded. As they travel radially outward through the Galaxy, they form a spherical shell that advances at a velocity approaching the speed of light.

[link to www.etheric.com]

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from Thunderbolts:

Another Active Ejecting Galaxy

A common characteristic of the spiraling Birkeland currents in a plasma discharge is that they flare out at the top. They appear first as horns or a crescent atop the pillar of the most intense part of the discharge. Often matter will accumulate along the axis as well, making the horns appear as a trident. Occasionally, three or four or more currents will produce multiple filaments flaring away from each other.

The flaring filaments above the center of NGC 3079 (image above) illustrate this behavior. They are evidence of a galactic-scale thunderbolt discharging its energy in the core below. Because that thunderbolt is only part of an electrical circuit that encompasses the entire galaxy, we would expect to see signs of excitation in other parts of the circuit. And we do: The outer edges of the spiral arms are dotted with bright spots, traditionally called "star-forming regions." Here the return current from the axial discharge, pinched into more or less equally spaced pairs of filaments, bends into the equatorial plane. At the bend, electrical forces are strengthened and matter accumulates. Stars are indeed formed, but they are electrical stars, lit by the surge of current exploding from the nucleus.

Why is NGC 3079 excited? The Electric Universe would suspect the driving energies were due to a surge in a larger, invisible circuit connecting to other galaxies. Mapping the radio and x-ray intensities in NGC 3079's neighborhood may reveal linkages to the galaxy's "parent". That galaxy would have ejected NGC 3079--but before it grew to its present size--in a similar electrical surge. Now NGC 3079 is in turn ejecting its own offspring: Halton Arp has identified nine high redshift quasars associated with this galaxy, and he is investigating 3 more probable quasars, each of which completes a pair with an already-identified quasar on the opposite side of the galaxy. The active galaxy’s electrical characteristics go hand-in-hand with its family of aligned quasars, both here and in other active galaxies. These associations offer valuable clues about the behavior of plasma in space.

[link to www.thunderbolts.info]

A Loose Cannon in Space

This image of the Dogleg Galaxy (NGC1097) is spectacular both for what it shows and for what it hides. The low exposure reveals the brightest structure in the central region of the galaxy, especially the "Ring of Pearls" around the nucleus. This ring is conventionally explained as knots of star formation triggered by gravitational disruption. But plasma cosmologists will notice the rough pairing of "pearls" and recall the pairing of Birkeland currents around plasma toroids in laboratory experiments with the plasma gun. A view down the barrel of the gun shows a ring of pairs of bright dots.

Gravity-induced collapse of gas clouds into stars has few other consequences. But the paired Birkeland currents in a plasma gun feed electrical energy into the plasmoid. When the energy reaches a critical level, the plasmoid discharges its energy into an axial jet and ejects knots of highly-charged matter. So is the Dogleg Galaxy simply an island of gravity in empty space, or are there "further consequences"?

What's not shown in this image is the pair of faint jets and counter-jets that stretch away to nearly twice the diameter of the galaxy. The longest jet ends in a right-angle bend, which gives the galaxy its name of "Dogleg." Halton Arp has called them "the most extensive, low surface brightness optical jets of any galaxy known." But to image them requires long exposure times. The discovery of "further consequences" requires more patience and daring than convention allows.

What else is not shown in this image is the bright x-ray quasar just beyond the dogleg jet. On the opposite side of the galaxy, along the dogleg's counter-jet, is a line of quasars that terminate on a BL Lac object (a rare kind of variable quasar). This object is brighter in x-ray light than the galaxy, indicating an electrical discharge even more intense than the central plasma gun's "Ring of Pearls." Readers who are familiar with Arp's work will recognize the common occurrence of quasars paired across an active galactic nucleus.


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