'A CATACLYSMIC event has occurred in space but we have NO IDEA what'

SHOCK NASA STATEMENT:
'A CATACLYSMIC event has occurred in space but we have NO IDEA what'
NASA has reported a cataclysmic event is taking place in space, but experts
are still investigating what exactly has happened.
By Jon Austin
PUBLISHED: 17:10, Fri, Mar 31, 2017 | UPDATED: 18:38, Fri, Mar 31, 2017

So, the English are making outlandish statements!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/scienc...ion-Black-Hole

Mystery X-ray flashes beamed towards Earth before vanishing just 24 hours
later, leaving scientists to investigate the source.

The phenomenon, which stemmed from a galaxy 10.7 billion lightyears away,
was captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Initial findings suggest it came from a "completely new type of cataclysmic
event".

A NASA spokesman said: "A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained.

"This source likely comes from some sort of destructive event in space, but
may be of a variety that scientists have never seen before."

Report co-author Kevin Schawinski, of ETH Zurich in Switzerland, said: "We
may have observed a completely new type of cataclysmic event.

"Whatever it is, a lot more observations are needed to work out what we're
seeing."

Franz Bauer of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago said:
"Ever since discovering this source, we've been struggling to understand its
origin.

"It's like we have a jigsaw puzzle but we don't have all of the pieces."

The X-ray source, located in a region of the sky known as the Chandra Deep
Field-South (CDF-S), has remarkable properties.

Prior to October 2014, this source was not detected in X-rays, but then it
erupted and became at least a factor of 1,000 brighter in a few hours.

After about a day, the source had faded completely below the sensitivity of
Chandra.

Thousands of hours of legacy data from the Hubble and Spitzer Space
Telescopes helped determine that the event likely came from a faint, small
galaxy about 10.7 billion lightyears from Earth.

For a few minutes, the X-ray source produced a thousand times more energy
than all the stars in this galaxy.

We may have observed a completely new type of cataclysmic event.
Kevin Schawinski

Two of the three main possibilities to explain the X-ray source invoke
gamma-ray burst (GRB) events.

GRBs are jetted explosions triggered either by the collapse of a massive
star or by the merger of a neutron star with another neutron star or a black
hole.

If the jet is pointing towards the Earth, a burst of gamma rays is detected.

As the jet expands, it loses energy and produces weaker, more isotropic
radiation at X-ray and other wavelengths.

Possible explanations for the CDF-S X-ray source, according to the
researchers, are a GRB that is not pointed toward Earth, or a GRB that lies
beyond the small galaxy.

A third possibility is that a medium-sized black hole swallowed a white
dwarf star.

Co-author Ezequiel Treister, also of the Pontifical Catholic University,
said: "None of these ideas fits the data perfectly.

"But then again, we've rarely if ever seen any of the proposed possibilities
in actual data, so we don't understand them well at all."

The mysterious X-ray source was not seen at any other time during the two
and a half months of exposure time Chandra has observed the CDF-S region,
which has been spread out over the past 17 years.

Moreover, no similar events have yet to be found in Chandra observations of
other parts of the sky.

If the X-ray source was caused by a GRB triggered by the merger of a neutron
star with a black hole or another neutron star, then gravitational waves
would also have been produced.

If such an event were to occur much closer to Earth, within a few hundred
million light years, it may be detectable with the Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).

A paper describing this result appears in the June 2017 issue of the Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and is available online.

a425couple wrote:
SHOCK NASA STATEMENT:
'A CATACLYSMIC event has occurred in space but we have NO IDEA what'
NASA has reported a cataclysmic event is taking place in space, but
experts are still investigating what exactly has happened.
By Jon Austin
PUBLISHED: 17:10, Fri, Mar 31, 2017 | UPDATED: 18:38, Fri, Mar 31, 2017

So, the English are making outlandish statements!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/scienc...ion-Black-Hole

Mystery X-ray flashes beamed towards Earth before vanishing just 24
hours later, leaving scientists to investigate the source.

The phenomenon, which stemmed from a galaxy 10.7 billion lightyears
away, was captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Initial findings suggest it came from a "completely new type of
cataclysmic event".

A NASA spokesman said: "A mysterious flash of X-rays has been
discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray
image ever obtained.
"This source likely comes from some sort of destructive event in space,
but may be of a variety that scientists have never seen before."

Report co-author Kevin Schawinski, of ETH Zurich in Switzerland, said:
"We may have observed a completely new type of cataclysmic event.

"Whatever it is, a lot more observations are needed to work out what
we're seeing."

Franz Bauer of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago
said: "Ever since discovering this source, we've been struggling to
understand its origin.

"It's like we have a jigsaw puzzle but we don't have all of the pieces."

The X-ray source, located in a region of the sky known as the Chandra
Deep Field-South (CDF-S), has remarkable properties.

Prior to October 2014, this source was not detected in X-rays, but then
it erupted and became at least a factor of 1,000 brighter in a few
hours.
After about a day, the source had faded completely below the
sensitivity of Chandra.

Thousands of hours of legacy data from the Hubble and Spitzer Space
Telescopes helped determine that the event likely came from a faint,
small galaxy about 10.7 billion lightyears from Earth.

For a few minutes, the X-ray source produced a thousand times more
energy than all the stars in this galaxy.

We may have observed a completely new type of cataclysmic event.
Kevin Schawinski

Two of the three main possibilities to explain the X-ray source invoke
gamma-ray burst (GRB) events.

GRBs are jetted explosions triggered either by the collapse of a massive
star or by the merger of a neutron star with another neutron star or a
black hole.

If the jet is pointing towards the Earth, a burst of gamma rays is
detected.
As the jet expands, it loses energy and produces weaker, more isotropic
radiation at X-ray and other wavelengths.

Possible explanations for the CDF-S X-ray source, according to the
researchers, are a GRB that is not pointed toward Earth, or a GRB that
lies beyond the small galaxy.

A third possibility is that a medium-sized black hole swallowed a white
dwarf star.

Co-author Ezequiel Treister, also of the Pontifical Catholic University,
said: "None of these ideas fits the data perfectly.

"But then again, we've rarely if ever seen any of the proposed
possibilities in actual data, so we don't understand them well at all."

The mysterious X-ray source was not seen at any other time during the
two and a half months of exposure time Chandra has observed the CDF-S
region, which has been spread out over the past 17 years.

Moreover, no similar events have yet to be found in Chandra
observations of other parts of the sky.

If the X-ray source was caused by a GRB triggered by the merger of a
neutron star with a black hole or another neutron star, then
gravitational waves would also have been produced.

If such an event were to occur much closer to Earth, within a few
hundred million light years, it may be detectable with the Laser
Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).

A paper describing this result appears in the June 2017 issue of the
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and is available
online.







Published in the JUNE 2017 issue ????
That thing really did affect the universe so much that it affected the
timeline so we are now getting internet posts from months in the future.

Uh,.....before things get back to normal, can you publish the winning
lottery numbers for April and May of 2017 ?

"a425couple" wrote in message news
SHOCK NASA STATEMENT:
'A CATACLYSMIC event has occurred in space but we have NO IDEA what'
NASA has reported a cataclysmic event is taking place in space, but experts
are still investigating what exactly has happened.
By Jon Austin
PUBLISHED: 17:10, Fri, Mar 31, 2017 | UPDATED: 18:38, Fri, Mar 31, 2017

So, the English are making outlandish statements!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/scienc...ion-Black-Hole

Mystery X-ray flashes beamed towards Earth before vanishing just 24 hours
later, leaving scientists to investigate the source.
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parks throughout the universe. Hang on, Hagar. It will be quite a ride.