APOD: The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb (2024 Apr 15)

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Re: APOD: The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb (2024 Apr 15)

Post by VictorBorun » Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:22 pm

here is a pair of cones my eyes make of that pic
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Re: APOD: The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb (2024 Apr 15)

Post by VictorBorun » Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:40 am

Suppose there are currently two supermassive black holes 20 light days apart in 2d view and 200 light days apart in 3d with no accretion to speak of.
Suppose 0.1 or 0.5 billion years ago the two were messily eating and blowing a pair of streams directed by double BH orbit and say the precession of the spin of one BH's accretion disk by the gravitation pull of the other BH. And now we can see no active galaxy nucleus evidence save for a resulting pair of galaxy-size optically thick dust cones/globes…
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