scientists have found an invisible star at the Milky Way Center a star that helped our galaxy be born 26,000 light years away in the galactic center a massive invisible object started spreading everywhere and you don't even know that you're breathing it right now it all started in the 7s when an astronomer named Vera ruin was studying the Andromeda galaxy she decided to check whether stars move in a predictable way now let's say you're spinning a ball on a string around yourself the closer the ball is to you the faster it moves in a tight Circle but if you let the string out longer the ball moves more slowly in a bigger Loop that's how gravity works and the same goes for planets the closer ones like Mercury Zoom around quickly completing their orbits in months the far ones like Neptune and Saturn take their time decades to make one rotation the Stars the El should orbit the centers of their galaxies the same way the closer ones move fast the farther ones are slower right but when Vera measured the speeds she saw something impossible they weren't slowing down the farway stars were moving just as fast as the ones near the center by all Logic the galaxies should have torn themselves apart but they didn't and that meant something was holding them together something undetectable some massive invisible object in the galactic center warping reality without ever revealing itself so she checked over and over with different galaxies this wasn't a flute it was happening everywhere Reuben had accidentallyuncovered proof that galaxies were drowning in something far heavier than all the stars planets and gas in our entire universe combined it was holding us with ghostly hands astronomers called it dark matter because it doesn't glow doesn't reflect light doesn't seem to interact with anything at all it's just there but all the calculations show us that it exists and not merely exists but makes up 85% of all the mass in the universe we know that it's sculpted galaxies without it the world as we know it wouldn't exist and yet just like with an invisible star scientists found at the Milky Way Center the only way to detect it was through gravity so how do you find something that refuses to be found recently scientists discovered there might be an invisible star at the Milky Way Center and this fascinating Discovery might finally help us understand what Dark Matter looks like they began looking for Dark Matters fingerprints any signs of its presence anywhere they studied how galaxies moved and smashed particles together in giant machines hoping to create tiny bits of dark matter in the lab this didn't really lead to anything they didn't even know what to look for is dark matter even made of particles there was a theory that suggested that it's made of ghostly particles that barely touch anything or even weirder ones that might flicker in and out of existence in the blink of an eye there was a problem though if dark matter really worked like that then the centers of galaxies should be packed tight tons of matter would be crammed into a tiny space but but in our universe Galactic cores seem strangely soft spread out almost gentle a new Theory emerged and it was wild what if the dark matter at the heart of galaxies isn't made of heavy particles at all what if it's made of something so delicate that it behaves more like a strand of hair these hairs could be made of something incredibly light lighter than anything we've ever seen and billions of times smaller than a neutrino which is already the lightest known particle they called this idea fuzzy dark matter and it might change everything we thought we knew about the universe a team of astrophysicists wanted to test this idea so they ran a simulation creating a simple model of a galaxy with two main ingredients a whole lot of fuzzy dark matter and a little bit of gas the same kind of gas that forms the star as we can see they Press Start and just let the system evolve by itself watching how the two would interact at first everything was pure chaos but then the fuzzy Dark Matter started to gather it pulled itself together forming a massive invisible object near a galactic center the gas followed spreading throughout this ghostly Mass mixing with it and glowing faintly and then it suddenly formed something incredible dark stars not typical stars like our sun blazing with heat and light instead it it's enormous massive invisible objects a hybrid of two different kinds of matter we've never never seen anything like this before an object that would stretch across thousands of light years and yet they'd be almost weightless more like Cosmic puffy clouds than anything else scientists called them firmian bosen Stars finally this dark matter thing is starting to make sense the core of this strange invisible star would have just the right density not too dense not too loose and it looked exactly like what astronomers actually see in real galaxies if it's confirmed then it would finally explain how dark matter behaves and works and if they're right then every galaxy in the universe could be tied to one of those vast unseen Giants the Milky Way hidden star might be one of them shaping our galaxy in ways we never realized what's Wild is that this stuff wouldn't behave like normal matter it wouldn't form anything solid instead it would be more like a complex ever moving web of filaments or hairs this also means that Earth might be completely surrounded by it dark matter still follows the rules of gravity as it moves past planets and stars gravity pulls it into Focus streams so it's both hugging and passing through our planet wobbling consistently if we could see them they might look like glowing invisible threads heads everywhere and they' Pierce right through the planet stretching far into space but this is only the beginning now scientists need to refine their models make them even more detailed and compare their predictions to real galaxies but this darkar discovery in the Galaxy Center isn't our only clue luckily the universe has given us a way to look for that fingerprint gravitational lensing when light from a far away Galaxy Travels toward us it sometimes passes by another massive Galaxy on the way or other massive objects with crazy gravity instead of continuing in the straight stream light actually gets bent around the massive object because of that gravity and when it finally reaches us it creates a distorted and magnified version of the original Galaxy basically it's like looking through a piece of curved glass if dark matter is fuzzy then it should leave a strange pattern on these distorted images things should be a bit wavy and unclear scientists needed the perfect object to study this and they found one a far away Galaxy whose light was Bent by gravity creating a strange stretched out image they used super powerful radio telescopes connected them all over the world and turned them into one giant telescope as big as the Earth itself with this they could zoom in so much that they could see details of that Galaxy as Tiny as a grain of sand on the moon then they ran a huge experiment they created their own fake versions of this picture simulations with various sizes of fuzzy Dark Matter particles and at a certain point they found the perfect match this helped us calculate the exact mass of Dark Matter particles before we even detected them and the clues are leading us right to our own Galaxy it seems like densest parts of these hairs the root might be super close in the cosmic scale just tens of thousands of miles from Earth that's close enough for a space probe to reach now that scientists have found this invisible star at the Milky Way Center we just need to study it up close send a mission to one of these roots.
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This Discovery Might Be a Warning About the End of Time
now history isn't just carved in stone but these drawings on 11,000-year-old rocks might be warning us about a freaky future both the Mayans and the people at Gobeclet Tapa made big predictions about humanity's future what's eerie is that despite being hundreds of miles and years apart they used similar symbols now let's get one thing straight ancient civilizations often depicted their deities as humanoids you'll find humanoid representations of celestial beings in ancient Egypt but also in pre-Colombian societies from the Americas for example Aztecs had an important deity they called Ketzu he was related to the wind Venus and the sun in some ancient Aztec art he's depicted carrying a tiny handbag the shocker is that a very similar winged figure was represented by the Assyrians now it's already odd that they chose similar forms to represent their gods even though these civilizations didn't have any contact with each other but to draw an almost identical handbag that seems like a bit of 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concepts of the earth and materiality so what we modern humans understand as a handbag might be an image that symbolizes the reunification of the earth and sky of the material and non-material elements of existence not a bad theory I would say but then who am I some researchers like Graham Hancock are not convinced with these previous explanations for him Gopeka is all about little gray people and their contacts with ancient earthling civilizations you see right in the middle of this ancient site there's a special pillar called Pillar 43 or enclosure D at first glance it looks like an astronomical calendar you see the scorpion that's the scorpion constellation and that ball in the center it's all about the sun's alignment we know ancient societies like the Maya or Incas were stellar astronomers so what's the big deal here turns out the folks at Gopekea were talking about a massive natural disaster that wiped out all forms of life before their time when astronomers recreated the angles and positions from Pillar 43 it showed an astrological setup from over 13,000 years ago the stone also depicted a tragic event a mix of a flood and a meteor shower the headless man that's humanity's tragic end and the snake from the ground giant waves washing over the earth and it's not just one stone telling the tale pillar 56 shows more of the younger dus event or as it's called the terror from the sky you see animals fleeing and waves crashing as the meteor shower hits but wait while 43 gives us the exact date of the last disaster pillar 18 in enclosure D gives us the date of the next possible wipeout the art depicted in this pillar zooms in on the constellation of Aquarius now you might have seen the movie The Age of Aquarius or heard some woo woo theories about how we're entering this phase right now you see what I'm driving at gopekley Tepa might be giving us the date of the next disaster so that we have time to prep for it these images could be a survival guide for humanity or not now this would be bananas if it weren't for one piece of evidence let's check the facts the Enki comet discovered in 1786 used to be part of a mega comet 100 miles wide made of ice metal and rock it broke up and formed a debris field now instead of one huge comet we've got millions of smaller ones when the Earth passed through that debris the folks at Gobecleta saw a firestorm of comets all coming from the Aquarius constellation just like on Pillar 43 now here's the supposed scary part we pass through that same debris field every year if you're watching this in September October or November we're flying through it right now it could happen that these debris fall onto the surface of the Earth all over again repeating history but so far that's just a theory the mind-boggling question is how did the people at Gobecé know about an event that happened before they were all born in 2019 excavations kicked off at Karan Tepa about 40 mi from Gobecleta but research suggests it might have been settled even earlier gobeci seems to have been a place of worship or an observatory but Kahan Tapa shows signs of a structured society excavations at Kahan Tepa reveal artifacts like intricate carvings tools and even possible remnants of buildings this suggests that these people were not just hunters and gatherers but had a structured society with spiritual or ceremonial practices in 2020 researchers started unearthing several other settlements in the area indicating that Gobecleta was part of a huge metropolis the whole site is known collectively as TAS Tepler the thing is the math around all this has scientists baffled around that time Earth was just leaving its last ice age and scientists used to think stone age civilizations were primitive but evidence keeps showing up proving that wasn't the case for Gobecé to have existed with that level of tech 12,000 years ago there must have been an even earlier civilization that kind of tech doesn't just pop up out of nowhere and hey 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