• mushroommunk@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    Here’s a summary

    It’s by no means confirmed. It’s one theory out of many. The JWST data shows galaxies have a significant preference to all spin the same way. Mathematicians say this would be evidence in favor but not fully confirm the black hole theory (also called the Swarthschild theory if you want to DDG more). Some suspect it’s bias from the rotation of our own galaxy affecting the data and they plan to calibrate more

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      3 months ago

      It also depends on the definition of black hole you are using.

      Because light in our universe doesn’t leave (escape) our universe it fits that definition of black hole.

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      If there was some slight angular momentum to things right after the big bang, would it not then make sense that everything would predominantly be still moving in that direction?

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        Do you have an essay you could throw at me, or some kind of video that explains it in reasonably understandable detail?

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            3 months ago

            I follow PBS Spacetime already, so chances are I’ve seen the videos you’re thinking of and can’t remember them offhand. I’ll give your link a read tho, thanks!

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              Anton Petrov also has good analysis of papers like that, here’s him explaining why no the observation does not support the black hole cosmology as long as we’re not cherrypicking https://youtu.be/xXSV9JaWxCE

              Doesn’t mean the paper is shit, it always helps drawing parallels to notice differences and refine our equations, but the sensationalism must prevail for all the news sites reporting on it I guess.

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      I wonder if there are rules pertaining to black holes existing within other black holes. If black hole A is inside black hole B, does it make sense to have a meaningful distinction between black hole A and the other stuff inside black hole B?

    • pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br
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      This theory could also explain those strange galaxies that shouldn’t exist according to our model that JWST keep finding. Maybe they are from the universe outside the black hole!