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Jamie Seidel
News Corp Australia Network June 1, 201912:08pm
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The American Physical Society annual meeting has been presented with evidence of a ‘dark impactor’ — an invisible source of gravity — tearing holes in our galaxy’s tidal star formations.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics researcher Dr Ana Bonaca was studying stellar streams, long lines of stars stretched out and flowing through our galaxy.
But the longest of these stellar streams, dubbed GD-1, looked a little odd.
It should have been a single line, stretched across the sky by the galaxy’s gravity. But there’s a monstrous hole in the star stream. And that hole — like a bullet hole — has a jagged edge where the force of an impact knocked stars out of alignment.
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“So what’s new here?” says Monash University associate professor in astrophysics Dr Michael Brown. “Well this stream has notches and twists in it, which suggest its gone by something several million times the mass of the Sun.”
Attempts to track down the cause of the hole have failed.
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Nov. 19, 2008
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Mysterious Source of High-Energy Cosmic Radiation Discovered
WASHINGTON -- Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. The finding was made with a NASA-funded balloon-borne instrument high over Antarctica.
Researchers from the Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) collaboration, led by scientists at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, published the results in the Nov. 20 issue of the journal Nature. The new results show an unexpected surplus of cosmic ray electrons at very high energy -- 300-800 billion electron volts -- that must come from a previously unidentified source or from the annihilation of very exotic theoretical particles used to explain dark matter.
"This electron excess cannot be explained by the standard model of cosmic ray origin," said John P. Wefel, ATIC project principal investigator and a professor at Louisiana State. "There must be another source relatively near us that is producing these additional particles."
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Something could not physically move the sun without moving Earth.