Huh… this is interesting. The CMB shows no such bias. 🤔
How large is the sample set? Aren’t almost all galaxies ancient (first billion years) and if so, what would eventually make them change rotation as observed by the ancient but nearby galaxies?
> One explanation is that the universe was born rotating. That explanation agrees with theories such as black hole cosmology, which postulates that the entire universe is the interior of a black hole.
We should rule *that* out… there’s too much counterevidence against this conjecture.
> because of the Doppler shift effect, researchers expect that light coming from galaxies rotating the opposite of the Earth’s rotation is generally brighter because of the effect
Yes, let’s factor that in before we conclude our observable universe exists within a black hole 🙄
SiteLine71 on
Riffle barrel, certainly plausible. More distance
Slashzero77 on
We must be looking only at galaxies that are above the equator. /s
favoritedeadrabbit on
Here is the underlying study if you want to skip phys.org.
In the same way that when all ships meet in space, they’re all right side up? I mean, if I look at the Milky Way from one side, it’s rotating clockwise. If I go to the other side, it’s counterclockwise.
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Huh… this is interesting. The CMB shows no such bias. 🤔
How large is the sample set? Aren’t almost all galaxies ancient (first billion years) and if so, what would eventually make them change rotation as observed by the ancient but nearby galaxies?
> One explanation is that the universe was born rotating. That explanation agrees with theories such as black hole cosmology, which postulates that the entire universe is the interior of a black hole.
We should rule *that* out… there’s too much counterevidence against this conjecture.
> because of the Doppler shift effect, researchers expect that light coming from galaxies rotating the opposite of the Earth’s rotation is generally brighter because of the effect
Yes, let’s factor that in before we conclude our observable universe exists within a black hole 🙄
Riffle barrel, certainly plausible. More distance
We must be looking only at galaxies that are above the equator. /s
Here is the underlying study if you want to skip phys.org.
[distribution of galaxy rotation in JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford Academic](https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/1/76/8019798?login=false)
In the same way that when all ships meet in space, they’re all right side up? I mean, if I look at the Milky Way from one side, it’s rotating clockwise. If I go to the other side, it’s counterclockwise.