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Everybody Loves a Final Countdown
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The first odd thing we noticed was that some of the quasars’ rotation axes were aligned with each other — despite the fact that these quasars are separated by billions of light-years.
The team then went further and looked to see if the rotation axes were linked, not just to each other, but also to the structure of the universe on large scales at that time. And, indeed, they were. The results indicate that the rotation axes of the quasars tend to be parallel to the large-scale structures in which they find themselves.
The researchers estimate that the probability that these alignments are simply the result of chance is less than 1%.
Note that the team could not see the rotation axes or the jets of the quasars directly. Instead, they measured the polarization of the light from each quasar and, for 19 of them, found a significantly polarized signal. The direction of this polarization, combined with other information, was used to deduce the angle of the black hole disk and hence the direction of the spin axis of the quasar. Dominique Sluse of the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie in Bonn, Germany and University of Liège said:
The alignments in the new data, on scales even bigger than current predictions from simulations, may be a hint that there is a missing ingredient in our current models of the cosmos. My favourite black hole system, Cygnus x1 :Cygnus x1: Quoting: xenophon Two Stars Won’t Collide Into a Red Nova in 2022 After All [ link to blogs.discovermagazine.com] *jumps off the merry-go-round* It's still worth watching.
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