The impression I got was that this is a long straight thing that is spinning. “14 nearby galaxies rich in hydrogen gas, arranged in a thin, stretched-out line about 5.5 million light-years long and 117,000 light-years wide.”
You don’t have to think about that very long to see something strange. A line spinning around a common point must go slower in the middle and faster on the ends, just to keep up and even be a line of things.
If the whole line maintains a uniform speed, the middle will complete a rotation much faster than the edges, and what was a line shortly becomes a spiral.
Or, that’s the way shit is supposed to work. Unless you’re a galaxy. And in that case, people make shit up to explain your non-Netwonian dynamics. There isn’t enough info in the article to understand if they are implying a vast halo of dark matter to support this rotating structure. Christ. Something that big, spinning, with lobes, would send out gravity waves. The whole set of ideas here is just a fraught mess.
I’d be more impressed if they found something perfectly stationary in space.
All motion is relative, so by definition that is not possible.
I think what they are trying to say because it’s spinning the same it’s all connected or formed at the same time.
All motion is relative, so it’s valid to define that the center of the universe, around which everything else revolves, is my cat.
(by her definition)Be honest. Is she right?
No, the physicists got it wrong. Because both of my cats are the center.
Two centers?? We are in unprecedented times!
That’s what I’m saying.
A dog biting a spinning man? That’s not news.
A spinning dog biting a man? That’s kind of weird, but still not news.
The Universe spinning around a stationary dog? Now that is front page material.
