In reply to Axil Axil's message of Sat, 12 Jul 2014 19:21:07 -0400: Hi,
They're obviously seeing XUV from Hydrino production in free space. ;) (If the dark matter is Hydrinos's as Mills claims, then disproportionation reactions should produce XUV.) >On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 7:03 PM, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> CU-Boulder instrument onboard Hubble reveals the universe is missing >> light >> >> http://tinyurl.com/qzs4rjo >> >> July 9, 2014 >> >> Something is amiss in the universe. There appears to be an enormous >> deficit of ultraviolet light in the cosmic budget. >> >> Observations made by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, a $70 million >> instrument designed by the University of Colorado Boulder and installed on >> the Hubble Space Telescope, have revealed that the universe is missing a >> large amount of light. >> >> Its as if youre in a big, brightly lit room, but you look around and >> see only a few 40-watt lightbulbs, said the Carnegie Institution for >> Sciences Juna Kollmeier, lead author of a new study on the missing light >> published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Where is all that light >> coming from? Its missing from our census. >> >> The research teamwhich includes Benjamin Oppenheimer and Charles Danforth >> of CU-Boulders Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomyanalyzed the >> tendrils of hydrogen that bridge the vast reaches of empty space between >> galaxies. When hydrogen atoms are struck by highly energetic ultraviolet >> light, they are transformed from electrically neutral atoms to charged ions. >> >> The astronomers were surprised when they found far more hydrogen ions than >> could be explained with the known ultraviolet light in the universe, which >> comes primarily from quasars. The difference is a stunning 400 percent. >> >> Strangely, this mismatch only appears in the nearby, relatively >> well-studied cosmos. When telescopes focus on galaxies billions of light >> years awaywhich shows astronomers what was happening when the universe was >> youngeverything seems to add up. The fact that the accounting of light >> needed to ionize hydrogen works in the early universe but falls apart >> locally has scientists puzzled. >> >> The mismatch emerged from comparing supercomputer simulations of >> intergalactic gas to the most recent analysis of observations from the >> Cosmic Origins Spectrograph. >> >> The simulations fit the data beautifully in the early universe, and they >> fit the local data beautifully if were allowed to assume that this extra >> light is really there, said CU-Boulders Oppenheimer. Its possible the >> simulations do not reflect reality, which by itself would be a surprise, >> because intergalactic hydrogen is the component of the universe that we >> think we understand the best. >> >> The type of light that is energetic enough to turn neutral hydrogen into >> hydrogen ions is called ionizing photons and is known to come from only >> two sources in the universe: quasars, which are powered by hot gas falling >> onto supermassive black holes over a million times the mass of the sun, and >> the hottest young stars. Observations indicate that the ionizing photons >> from young stars are almost always absorbed by gas in their host galaxy, so >> they never escape to affect intergalactic hydrogen. But the number of known >> quasars is far lower than needed to produce the amount of light necessary >> to create the quantity of hydrogen ions measured by the research team. >> >> >> If we count up the known sources of ultraviolet ionizing photons, we come >> up five times too short, Oppenheimer said. We are missing 80 percent of >> the ionizing photons, and the question is where are they coming from? The >> most fascinating possibility is that an exotic new source, not quasars or >> galaxies, is responsible for the missing photons. >> >> For example, the mysterious dark matter, which holds galaxies together but >> has never been seen directly, could itself decay and ultimately be >> responsible for this extra light. >> >> The great thing about a 400 percent discrepancy is that you know >> something is really wrong, said co-author David Weinberg of Ohio State >> University. We still don't know for sure what it is, but at least one >> thing we thought we knew about the present day universe isnt true. >> >> Other co-authors on the study are Francesco Haardt of the Università >> dellInsubria, Romeel Davé of the University of the Western Cape, Mark >> Fardal of University of Massachusetts Amherst, Piero Madau of the >> University of California, Santa Cruz, Amanda Ford of the University of >> Arizona, Molly Peeples of the Space Telescope Science Institute, and Joseph >> McEwen of Ohio State University. >> >> The study was funded in part by NASA, the National Science Foundation and >> the Ahmanson Foundation. >> Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
