A Journey To Deep Space & The Edge of Forever. A new study authored by University of Utah astrophysicist Paolo Gondolo shows that the first stars, born nearly 13 billion years ago, may have been 400 to 200,000 times larger than our sun and heavily influenced by dark matter, an invisible element that scientists say makes up most of the universe. Those "dark stars" were named by Gondolo's colleagues astrophysicist Katherine Freese of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and graduate student Douglas Spolyar of the University of California at Santa Cruz, after the song "Dark Star" by The Grateful Dead.
They may still be in existence, though they don't produce light and instead likely emit infrared energy, or heat, which can be picked up only by space-based telescopes. Astrophysicists previously thought dark matter played heavily into the formation of the universe, but never the formation of the earliest stars.
Previously, stars were thought to form when hydrogen and helium atoms clumped and swirled together in what's called a proto-stellar cloud. They began to cool and collapse and become denser. That cooling and shrinking continues until the fusion of hydrogen into helium begins, which causes the star to emit light, Gondolo said. The new findings suggest that dark matter interacted and broke down, producing heat instead of light. As a proto-stellar cloud of hydrogen and helium tried to cool and shrink, the dark matter would keep it hot and large, preventing fusion from making the star shine. "A star that . . . is not powered by nuclear fusion is a unique thing," Gondolo said. "It may point to the nature of dark matter." The research has several implications for the study of the creation of the earliest stars, including how black holes may have formed in the relatively short time frame of 10,000 to 100,000 years.
A Journey into Deep Space
Project Dark Star - The search for the Black Sun
Welcome to the scientific revolution that will change everything. are you ready for the paradigm shift?
I love the blog suggestions you made. I put them all on the blogger list(not publicly). It's always good to have too much to read and see rather than too little. These blogs expand the mind rather than put it into a contracting box. Today I was watching the Pharmacratic Inquisition post from the secret sun blog. No fearmongering, no timewarped Christian patriot box, no insulting. Just people who are well adjusted living in the time and place we're in and who are curious about how it all works.
ReplyDeleteThank you for pointing that out Donny. That's what I've been trying to explain to people for months now. They just don't get it! You don't have to have the "shit kicked out of you" to learn. There are enough hard-knocks in life as it is, don't go looking for it too.
ReplyDeleteIdea! I'll consider making a post about Blogs we follow. Maybe that will raise some interesting comments? Take care.
-DarkStar888
Donny you are too cool how you are open to all this info.I to watched PI on secret sun.It's mindblowing how much cool genius info is available for free on the net.Having grown up in the 70s and 80s and being completely mind controled this stuff is like crack cocaine to me.Sometimes I think you have to at least have a minimum IQ to be interested in these things and then have the courage or whatever to break free from the propoganda and mind control.Oh by the way I am from small town Tennessee so I really admire a Georgia girl that checks this stuff out.The south is just too much,it's like a contest to see who can talk about Jesus first and the most,oh don't get me started.The most beautiful country in the world completely fucked by jesus tards,really sad.Most of the cool people from high school I knew ended up joining the jesus borg,it's like they just don't stop til you are one of them.They are all gonna get a rude awakening,It's just gettin started for em,their raging know it all egos demand it.
ReplyDelete