Saturday, September 18, 2010

A Call from the Universe Next-Door

In my last post I talked about the possibility of a Universe next-door. By next door I mean, only about 10 to 35 meters away from the edge of our Universe. In that post it was suggested that the dark matter could be the gravitational pull from the Universe next door. As I kept reading posts in The Daily Galaxy I came across this post: “From the X Files Dept: Mystery Radio Waves Emitted From Nearby Galaxy Still Unsolved”. According to Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics M82 is emitting a radio wave like we have never observed before.
M82 is a nearby Galaxy, only about 12 million light-years away. This galaxy is also referred to as the cigar galaxy and can be found in the constellation of Ursa Major. According to Wikipedia, this Galaxy is 5 times as bright as our galaxy and 100 times brighter than our galaxy center. What we know so far about M82 is that this is an energetic galaxy that is creating a ton of new stars, much more then what our galaxy is creating.
Back to the radio waves. Muxlow states that the radio wave emission is not at all what we are used to see. According to The Daily Galaxy, Muxlow asks the question whether the black hole in the center of M82 is dragging material from one universe into yet another universe? The Daily Galaxy goes on and states, the nested universe concept suggests that a violent short wave gamma burst in a larger universe somehow make an appearance as a long wavelength radio wave in the smaller universe.
Nested universe concept? OK, I know we had a lot to cover in Astronomy 101, but the text book did not mention any thing about the nested universe concept. Even Wikipedia does not have an entry on nested universe. But this could be the link to the parallel universe I talked about in my previous post. This could be our ticket to our universe next door.

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