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"The State of the Earth" - The Predicted Weather Shift (Mini Ice Age - 2032 !!)
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"Earth, the only planet with free choice in the Milky Way Galaxy" |
Some day you'll meet the star seeds, your Pleiadian sisters and brothers. They're even here now, since they are quantum. You've got Pleiadian ancestors who live a very, very long time in a graduate situation in a planet that went through the test just like yours. And it developed a quantum factor. They have benevolence and they have quantum energy. That's how they get here instantly and return, and they'll never interrupt your free choice. That's also why they don't land and say hello. Instead, they sit and cheer on the sidelines for what you've finally done. They are waiting with you to celebrate the December solstice of 2012... the half way point of the 36 year shift you are in. …”
Milky Way Galaxy / Black Hole - "Other galaxies have their own spiritual systems and physics"
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- The real deal: astronomers deliver first photo of black hole
- Scientists set to unveil first picture of a black hole
- Scientists solve weighty matter of Milky Way mass
- New Universe map unearths 300,000 more galaxies
- Galaxy 'mega-merger' 10 bn years ago forged Milky Way
- New 3-D map of Milky Way will 'revolutionise astronomy'
- Seven Earth-like planets discovered around single star
- Twinkle, twinkle, lots of stars: scientists find two trillion observable galaxies
- "THE FUTURE OF DNA" – (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)
- "The Human Soul Revealed" – (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)
- Scientists predict Earth-like planets around most stars
- "The Physics of Consciousness - The Future Revealed " – (a message from Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)
- Will ET Be Here Soon? NASA Brings Scientists, Theologians Together To Prepare
- US Government Takes First Major Steps Towards UFO Disclosure
- "The Fast-Track Systems" – (a message from Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)
- Supermassive Black Hole at Center of Milky Way Snacks on Hot Gas
- "The Interdimensional Universe" – Nov 15, 2003 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)
1 To seea nd measure multi-dimensional/quantum physics, instrument (super-cooling quantum plasma lens)
2 Two more laws of multi-dimensional physics revealed: explanation of dark matter & acknowledgement of free energy (controlling mass)
3 God in the atom. God has - provable - part in physics. Intelligent/benevolent design. (Will bring religion and science together)
4 Human Consciousness is an attribute of physics. (Pleiadians - Humans ancestors / Humans free choice only planet in the Milky Way Galaxy. Other galaxies have their own spiritual systems and physics)
5 Coherent DNA. Multidimensional DNA coherent between dimensions will give Enhanced DNA
Quantum Physics Science
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- Physicist Marcelo Gleiser: 'Science does not kill God'
- Vera Rubin, pioneering astronomer, dies at 88
- Amsterdam professor develops new theory of gravity
- The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality
- Dutch invest €135m in developing a quantum computer
- Griffith scientists propose existence and interaction of parallel worlds
- A Physicist’s View of the Afterlife: Weird Quantum Physics
- Freaky Physics Experiment May Prove Our Universe Is A Two-Dimensional Hologram
- NASA: New "impossible" engine works, could change space travel forever
- China expands world's deepest "dark matter" lab
- 10 Scientific Studies That Prove Consciousness Can Alter Our Physical Material World
- Delft University scientists 'teleport' information over three metres (Netherlands)
- Scientists Report Quantum Teleportation Breakthroughs (Japan, Switserland)
- China looks to quantum mechanics to protect secrets from US hackers
The Key to Life is Balance

Dealing with Changing Energies
- The Final Ascension Process – Sep 23, 2012 (a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- Opening To 2013 – Aug 13, 2012 (a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- Quantum Living begins 2012 – 30 Oct 2011 (a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- "Prepare for 2012's Energies" - 2 Sep 2011 (a message from The Council of 12 channelled by Selacia)
- 1 - Travel lightly. Release your own emotional clutter and baggage of past
- 2 - Recognition. Own or throw it out. "Is this emotion mine or someone else’s?”
- 3 - Transmute. Treat others as you yourself would like to be treated.
- ("Essential survival kit" - a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- 4 - Completion. Completion is total release on the emotional body. Total release of all cords and attachments.
- ("Your New Energy Field" - a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- "Transform Your Reactions to Quantum Reactions" - Sep 2, 2011 - (a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- “The Secret of Mastery” - May 15, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)
- ("The Holograms of Creation" - Apr 2011 - a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- The Physical Vessel Is A Wondrous Creation (symptoms of ascension you experience) - Nov 2010 (Archangel Michael Channeling)
- ("2011 - A Year of Unity" - a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
Blossom Goodchild and White Cloud Live! (12 November 2020)
ABSOLUTE PROOF THE CHANGE HAS BEGUN. Blossom and White Cloud speak.
Kryon link spoken by Blossom Goodchild (and White Cloud) in above video
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild April 12, 2025
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild March 29, 2025
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild March 22, 2025
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild March 15, 2025
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild March 1, 2025
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild February 22, 2025
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild February 15, 2025
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild January 25, 2025
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild January 11, 2025,
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild December 14, 2024
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild December 1, 2024
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild November 23, 2024
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild November 9, 2024
- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild November 2, 2024
- Watching a UFO From My Roof (UFO Releasing Glowing Orbs Into a Formation)
- The truth is out there: aliens visit to help, and use the loo
- UFOTV Presents...: Out of the Blue - Full UFO HD Movie
- Are Aliens Living On Planets Inside Black Holes?
- 2012: What on Earth is going on? (video)
- The Day Before Disclosure (Free online HQ video)
- Norwegian princess Martha Louise claims she can contact the dead
- 2012 The Online Movie: Final Cut
- The Psychic Twins predict 2012 on Tyra!
- Ask the Psychic Twins
- 2010 UFO Convention - David Sereda - Reverse Engineered UFO Technology (YouTube 1-12)
- UFO - For Your Eyes Only (video)
- More Articles related to UFO's / ET's .......
Humans - UFO/ET Encounters
- Sgt. Clifford Stone Interview by Ed Komarek
- The Proof You’ve Been Waiting for. Hold onto Your Hats!
- Enrique Villanueva - ET Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness
- Elizabeth Klarer: UFO Contactee and Space Traveler
- Fryslân DOK: UFO's yn Fryslân (Dutch Video)
- INELIA BENZ : the full interview - with Bill Ryan from Project Avalon
- Overview over some of the civilizations and interplanetary confederations who visits Earth
- Mary Rodwell: The New Humans - Starchildren & Indigos (Video)
- Ships of Light - The Carlos Diaz UFO Experience – Video 1-2 !!!!!!!
- ET council: We will increase UFOs, address U.N. in 2014, renew ecology in 2015
- 3 - ET’s Among Us: Help for Humanity - (Mother Earth (Gaia) and Uilora (ET) channeled through Pepper Lewis)
- 2 - Magnification Zones II: How to Reignite a Stalled World - (Mother Earth (Gaia) and Uilora (ET) channeled through Pepper Lewis)
- 1 - Magnification Zones I: Replacing Comfort Zones - (Mother Earth (Gaia) and Uilora (ET) channeled through Pepper Lewis)
- Hui Sun Kim: Earth Humans’ Interaction with the Rest of the Universe
- Help From Our Friends
- Filippo Interviews Sheldan Nidle - Part 1-6 (Video)
- 2012 & Our Extraterrestrial Future with Jerry Wills (video)
- The planet Iarga - introduction (UFO-Contact from Planet Iarga)
- The planet Acart - A Planet without Money
- Japan's new first lady says rode UFO to Venus
- Odisealink The Movie Documentary: The Alien Encounter Of Dr. Jonathan Reed
- The Dropa Stones, Evidence Of Alien Visits To Earth, UFO?
Greg Braden "If we are honest, truthful, considerate, caring and compassionate, if we live this each day, we have already prepared for whatever could possibly come on 2012 or any other day, any other year, any time in our future."
The annual Perseid meteor shower
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Northern Lights provide spectacular show over the Netherlands
DutchNews, February 27, 2023
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The Northern Lights, seen from Terschellling. Photo: ANP / Hollandse Hoogte / Kappers Media |
The Northern Lights, an atmospheric phenomenon rarely seen in the Netherlands, were visible over large parts of the country on Sunday night.
Nu met timelapse #noorderlicht pic.twitter.com/mSob9YHTSV
— Dick Tolsma (@tolsumadvies) February 26, 2023
Zojuist deze foto gemaakt op de dijk vlakbij Lauwersoog! @StormchaserNL @BuienRadarNL @Talpaweer @Weerplaza @weeronline #noorderlicht pic.twitter.com/TdXH2MI8My
— Weerstation Anjum (@Tim_Zijlstra1) February 26, 2023
Timelapse toont spectaculair noorderlicht boven Terschelling https://t.co/Ng8rRrqnAS
— NU.nl (@NUnl) February 27, 2023
Solar storm delivers spectacular aurora displays and pictures
Solar storm heads Earth's way after double sun blasts
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The Aurora Australis is observed from the International Space Station During a geomagnetic storm on May 29, 2010 (AFP Photo) |
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Northern lights over Terschelling, Friesland. 27-28 February, 2014 |
'Monster' gamma ray burst in space sets record for death of star
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Image provided by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre shows an artist's rendering of how a gamma ray burst occurs. Photograph: AP 22 Nov 2013 |
Monday, October 17, 2022
“Hidden Attributes of Innate” – (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)
Kryon.com, October 27, 2021
Live Kryon Channelling. Healing Wednesday livestream
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Lee Carroll |
This is lesson four of four regarding that amazing thing called Innate. We encourage you to hear the other three channels that give information in a sequence that makes sense of this teaching. What is Innate? Where is it? How do you access it? And finally, what are some of the attributes that might be a mystery? [www.kryon.com/freeaudio]
Innate is that amazing smart body, an attribute within you, which knows what you don’t about you. Innate is used for muscle testing. It’s responsible for “the placebo effect,” and for spontaneous remission. It is that which has many mysteries not yet solved regarding exactly how it works.
The first mystery is that it exists at all because it is not truly understandable, and often is seen as a miracle. There are processes in your body (I’ll call them triggers) that start a cascade of healing energy. When you can have a disease that goes into a spontaneous remission so fast you would assign it as a miracle, there must be some kind of process that your body has, which Innate triggered. It is truly amazing. What if Innate knows things about your body that can create an enhanced energy of miraculous, cascading healing? These are the things that my partner has seen on this planet with his own eyes. It takes your breath away to see it!
Instantaneous healing is always assigned to a higher power, or to some kind of miracle. This is because there is no acknowledgment of the fact that this kind of thing might exist internally in your own body. The truth is bigger than you think: These kinds of healings are the actual chemical triggers of your own body. This has never been seen as a direct result of medicine, hence the disbelief. However, it has been seen constantly, especially in spiritual circles, for hundreds of years. I’ll tell you that these are the things that deserve analysis, which many believe are simply not explainable. However, these are the things that Innate has been doing in Humans for a very long time because you have asked for it, or because you needed it. These are life-saving mysteries to this day.
Innate is very unusual, and we “gave it away” in the last Circle of Twelve session. However, if you are listening to or reading this channel and you are not a member of the Circle of Twelve, I will inform you now: Innate is part of your Soul. Think about this. It is not sequestered to your chemistry. It has to be part of the “Bigger You” for these kinds of miracle-like actions, and especially for the next attribute to be explained.
There would be those who would say, “Now you’ve gone too far, Kryon, because Innate obviously is something that is part of your cellular structure. It tells you all of the things that you need for your body, and so why would it be part of your Soul?”
The answer is an answer I will give about many things that you consider “body only.” Your chemistry and cellular structure are not in a prison of skin, as you often see it. Your body is huge, and it has a field that extends way beyond 3D. Do you really think your consciousness comes from your brain? No animal on Earth “ponders its existence.” Only Humans do that. You are part of a much larger system than you think.
Let’s go slowly. Part of profound healing is getting beyond the blocks that you’ve had from past lives. Let’s say it again. Part of profound healing is dealing with the blocks that have come with you from past lives. There is a subconscious “remembering mechanism” that sometimes comes in with your current life from past-life experience. Most of you know this. Those of you listening to this Circle of 12 program would be aware of it since so many of the guests who have been on the program have discussed it. “Rewriting the codes,” they will call it. Where did the codes come from? Many are with you from birth – from the Akashic memory of past lives.
There’s a lot of clearing that must be done for the healing of these blocks. Quite often these are the blocks, plus other ones from your current upbringing, which keep healing from happening quickly. So, think about it: There has to be an energy that knows you and works with your subconscious to make anything happen. It must be an energy that knows what these blocks are, an energy that may have even been with you when the blocks occurred in a past life. Welcome to the amazing mystery of Innate. Innate must be part of your Soul because it knows about those blocks, dear ones. Innate, therefore, is multi-dimensional.
If you start to think that Innate might be something far grander and more powerful than a simple body intelligence, you are on the path to a greater truth. Indeed, Innate might be a Soul partner: It comes in with you with some very, very interesting “awareness of your personal attributes.” Having Innate as part of something bigger explains how it might work.
Let me give you something else to think about: There are some women listening to or reading this now who have a genomic situation, and when they learn about it, it’s frightening. They will find out they may have an inherited disease that seems to come with the genes at birth somehow. They will say: “My mother died of it; my sister died of it; and I’m afraid of it.” Bless you, if you are one of these (women), for this is something that sits upon your consciousness, perhaps sits upon your very innermost thoughts. These are things that you awaken to and wonder if this situation may visit you.
Healings are accomplished many, many times that will remove the ancestral DNA or genome attribute that would cause that disease. Did you get that? In order for this to work for you, and be removed from your genome forever, the process has to come out of your past so completely that it affects even the lineage that you have. That is far more than a chemical healing. It’s almost like rewriting part of your lineage – yet the Innate can do it, and does, regularly. There are some of you who are also listening to or reading this who know I am right because you have had all that dysfunctional genomic chemistry eliminated through profound healings that you have generated yourself, through your consciousness, through cognizing the process of talking to your cells.
So, a woman who says, “Dear Innate, break my ancestral disease link so that I will not get the disease,” starts the process of working with the blocks from her past-life genealogy. If she can cognize this and is successful – are you ready for this? – the link will also be broken in her existing and future children. Think about this one. The inherited negative genes stop here!
And the question is: can Innate really do that? Yes. I told you from earlier messages that you are in charge of all things biological. It’s a command to Innate because Innate is there as a Soul partner to do the things that you are awakening to and beginning to understand. You are understanding how to be able to speak to Innate. Is that too much to understand?
The new energy of the planet is starting to enhance the awakening process for many, and they are starting to see how much more there is to their inner structure and the interaction of their spiritual selves to their biological selves.
You are awakening to your power, you might say, to control your own body. And part of this is that there are dysfunctional ancestral links that you can stop right now. Oh, dear one, there is someone here who needed to hear that. Can we celebrate that together? You needed to hear that. It’s very doable.
So, how big do you think Innate is now? It knows your biological ancestry. It also knows your Akashic Record. It’s a Soul partner that comes in with you.
Two more items that you should know about: The Innate has some attributes that you normally assign to Spirit itself. Number One: Innate is quiet. You never know it’s there until you awaken to its presence and start working with it. It’s an interesting thing that would come in with you, yet be silent, isn’t it? You’d think that Innate would arrive ready to help and start working with you immediately. But, if you say nothing, nothing happens.
If you sit in a restaurant and never order food, it never comes. It’s an odd thing, is it not, to go to a restaurant over and over and simply sit at the table and then leave later? Welcome to humanism because that’s what you’ve been doing. You’ve been coming to that place, wishing to have the healing, never understanding there is a menu in front of you called Innate.
Innate will do no healing until you awaken to a place where you know you can work together to make it happen. Think of that for a moment. That explains so much. It explains why a Human can go into despair, or fear, or the real attributes of feeling they are a victim of life – and never know about the menu of Innate. If that’s you, now you know. Again, I would ask you to review the first three lessons. [www.kryon.com/freeaudio]
Number Two: Here is the final attribute, a sobering one, and one that happens all the time: You order the wrong thing from the restaurant’s menu! Innate obeys your passionate instructions. Many are using the “menu” all the time and don’t know it. If you say, “Innate, I want to be sick tomorrow,” you will be sick tomorrow. Innate has no judgment, dear ones. It has no filters. It is here to serve you.
“Wait a minute, Kryon, who would say that?” Thousands do, when they fear disease and say, “I’m going to catch that. I know it!” or “I wonder if I have that disease I saw on the commercial on TV last night? I think I do!” This is energy given to the menu of Innate.So, in your life, if you are afraid of catching every disease that might be out there, Innate will make sure you do. Did you hear me? This is that Soul partner that does what you ask, dear ones. It does what it sees you are interested in! Hypochondriacs are invested in concentrating most of their efforts on worrying about the diseases – that, unknown to them, they are ordering on the menu.
Think about your words when you are at home alone. What instructions are you giving to Innate with the things that you say? When you say, “Oh, I knew that would happen. Only bad things are happening to me. I wonder what’s going to happen tomorrow … some more bad things, perhaps?” Innate will line it up for you and make certain you receive what you verbalized.
For those who would say, “All manner of bad things happen to me all the time. So, is this just me thinking this, or is that really true?” I will tell you, dear ones, yes, it’s really true. It is because you have brought it to you with your words and expectations. Did you ever think of that?
Maybe it’s time to go to that restaurant, pick up that magnificent menu of healing and create a wonderful, purposefully-worded order. It would be an order that you will not ever, ever forget. It is done with your affirmative expectations and your verbalizations to others.
One of the things on that menu, at the top, in big letters is this: I am magnificent. Here are the magnificent things: Number one: I am not a victim. Number two: I was born magnificent. Number three: I have a Soul partner called Innate that was built to heal and help and bring me into the magnificence of who I am. Number four: It’s waiting for my order.
What a concept.
Mysterious, indeed. Actionable? Yes. Doable? Yes, it’s there in front of you, dear ones, and tens of thousands have discovered this and know about Innate and the magic that can be yours.
I am Kryon, in love with humanity.
And so it is.
KRYON
Monday, June 13, 2022
Milky Way's secrets revealed by massive space probe map
France24 – AFP, 13 June 2022
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The Gaia mission to create the most accurate 3D map of the Milky Way ever has released its latest set of data - EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY/AFP/File |
Paris (AFP) – The Gaia space probe unveiled its latest discoveries on Monday in its quest to map the Milky Way in unprecedented detail, surveying nearly two million stars and revealing mysterious "starquakes" which sweep across the fiery giants like vast tsunamis.
The mission's third data set, which will be released to eagerly waiting astronomers around the world at 1000 GMT, "revolutionises our understanding of the galaxy," the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
"It's the Swiss Army knife of astrophysics -- there is not a single astronomer who does not use its data, directly or indirectly," said Francois Mignard, a member of the Gaia team.
Some of the map's new insights are close to home, such as a catalogue of more than 156,000 asteroids in our Solar System "whose orbits the instrument has calculated with incomparable precision," Mignard said.
But Gaia also sees beyond the Milky Way, spotting 2.9 million other galaxies as well as 1.9 million quasars -- the stunningly bright hearts of galaxies powered by supermassive black holes.
The Gaia spacecraft is nestled in a strategically positioned orbit 1.5 million kilometres (937,000 miles) from Earth, where it has been watching the skies since it was launched by the ESA in 2013.
'Beautiful melting pot of stars'
"Gaia scans the sky and picks up everything it sees," said astronomer Misha Haywood of the Paris Observatory.
But it can still only detect around one percent of the stars in the Milky Way, which is about 100,000 light years across.
The probe is equipped with two telescopes as well as a billion-pixel camera, which captures images sharp enough to gauge the diameter of a human hair at a distance of 1,000 kilometres (620 miles).
It also has a range of other instruments that allow it to not just map the stars, but measure their movements, chemical compositions and ages.
"It provides a global observation of the positions of anything that moves in the sky, for the first time," Haywood said, adding that before Gaia "we had a really restricted view of the galaxy".
It also reveals the huge array of differences between stars.
"Our galaxy is a beautiful melting pot of stars," said Gaia member Alejandra Recio-Blanco.
"This diversity is extremely important, because it tells us the story of our galaxy's formation," he said.
"It also clearly shows that our Sun, and we, all belong to an ever-changing system, formed thanks to the assembly of stars and gas of different origins."
Surprise starquakes
The observation of "starquakes", massive vibrations that change the shape of the distant stars, was "one of the most surprising discoveries coming out of the new data", the ESA said.
Gaia was not built to observe starquakes but still detected the strange phenomenon on thousands of stars, including some that should not have any -- at least according to our current understanding of the universe.
"Gaia is opening a gold mine for 'asteroseismology' of massive stars," said Gaia member Conny Aerts.
Around 50 scientific papers were published alongside the new data, with many more expected in the coming years. Gaia's observations have fuelled thousands of studies since its first dataset was released in 2016.
The second dataset in 2018 allowed astronomers to show that the Milky Way merged with another galaxy in a violent collision around 10 billion years ago.
The torrent of raw data is combed through by a team of 450 European scientists and software engineers using six supercomputers as well as "human-driven algorithms" as part of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium, Mignard said.
"Without this processing group, there is no mission," he added, because every day Gaia produces 700 million star positions and 150 million photometric measurements.
It took the team five years to deliver the latest data, which was observed from 2014 to 2017.
"We can't wait for the astronomy community to dive into our new data to find out even more about our galaxy and its surroundings than we could've imagined," ESA's Gaia project scientist Timo Prusti said.
The final data set will be released in 2030, after
Gaia finishes its mission surveying the skies in 2025.
Monday, May 16, 2022
First image of black hole at Milky Way's centre revealed
Yahoo – AFP, Pierre Celerier and Juliette Collen, May 12, 2022
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Illustration showing the different parts of a black hole (AFP/Alain BOMMENEL) |
The image -- produced by a global team of scientists known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration -- is the first, direct visual confirmation of the presence of this invisible object, and comes three years after the very first image of a black hole from a distant galaxy.
"For decades, we have known about a compact object that is at the heart of our galaxy that is four million times more massive than our Sun," Harvard University astronomer Sara Issaoun told a press conference in Garching, Germany, held simultaneously with other media events around the world.
"Today, right this moment, we have direct evidence that this object is a black hole."
Black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that nothing can escape, including light.
The image thus depicts not the black hole itself, because it is completely dark, but the glowing gas that encircles the phenomenon in a bright ring of bending light.
As seen from Earth, it appears the same size as a donut on the surface of the Moon, Issaoun explained.
"These unprecedented observations have greatly improved our understanding of what happens at the very centre of our galaxy," EHT project scientist Geoffrey Bower, of Taiwan's Academia Sinica, said in a statement.
The research results are published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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World map showing the network of telescopes which formed an earth-sized virtual telescope to capture the first image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way (AFP/Sophie RAMIS) |
Sagittarius A* -- abbreviated to Sgr A*, and pronounced "sadge-ay-star" -- owes its name to its detection in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
Located 27,000 light years from Earth, its existence has been assumed since 1974, with the detection of an unusual radio source at the centre of the galaxy.
In the 1990s, astronomers mapped the orbits of the brightest stars near the centre of the Milky Way, confirming the presence of a supermassive compact object there -- work that led to the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Though the presence of a black hole was thought to be the only plausible explanation, the new image provides the first direct visual proof.
Capturing images of such a faraway object required linking eight giant radio observatories across the planet to form a single "Earth-sized" virtual telescope called the EHT.
"The EHT can see three million times sharper than the human eye," German scientist Thomas Krichbaum of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy told reporters.
"So, when you are sitting in a Munich beer garden, for example, one could see the bubbles in a glass of beer in New York."
The EHT gazed at Sgr A* across multiple nights for many hours in a row -- a similar idea to long-exposure photography and the same process used to produce the first image of a black hole, released in 2019.
That black hole is called M87* because it is in the Messier 87 galaxy.
The two black holes bear striking similarities, despite the fact that Sgr A* is 2,000 times smaller than M87*.
"Close to the edge of these black holes, they look amazingly similar," said Sera Markoff, co-chair of the EHT Science Council, and a professor at the University of Amsterdam.
Both behaved as predicted by Einstein's 1915 theory of General Relativity, which holds that the force of gravity results from the curvature of space and time, and cosmic objects change this geometry.
Despite the fact Sgr A* is much closer to us, imaging it presented unique challenges.
Gas in the vicinity of both black holes moves at the same speed, close to the speed of light. But while it took days and weeks to orbit the larger M87*, it completed rounds of Sgr A* in just minutes.
The brightness and pattern of the gas around Sgr A* changed rapidly as the team observed it, "a bit like trying to take a clear picture of a puppy quickly chasing its tail," said EHT scientist Chi-kwan Chan of the University of Arizona.
The researchers had to develop complex new tools to account for the moving targets.
The resulting image -- the work of more than 300 researchers across 80 countries over a period of five years -- is an average of multiple images that revealed the invisible monster lurking at the centre of the galaxy.
"The fact that we're able to make an image of one, something that should be unseeable... I think that that's just really exciting," Katie Bouman, a Caltech professor who played a key role in creating the image, told AFP.
Scientists are now eager to compare the two black holes to test theories about how gasses behave around them -- a poorly understood phenomenon thought to play a role in the formation of new stars and galaxies.
Probing black holes -- in particular their infinitely small and dense centers known as singularities, where Einstein's equations break down -- could help physicists deepen their understanding of gravity and develop a more advanced theory.
"What about Einstein? Would he smile seeing all these hundreds of scientists still not having proven him wrong?" said Anton Zensus of the Max Planck Institute.
"I rather think that he would be ecstatic seeing
all the experimental possibilities we have in this field today."
Scientist superstar Katie Bouman designed algorithm for black hole image
"FUTURE AND PHYSICS (#)" - May 16-17, 2014 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (#) New major Discoveries (This channel will become a historical channel in the future, prove that Kryon is a real communication from the Creative Source/God to Humanity - 'Our Family') - (Text version Physics)
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"Earth, the only planet with free choice in the Milky Way Galaxy" |
"Recalibration of the Universe"– Jan 25, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Text Version)
The very physics of your galaxy is postured by what you do here. The astronomers can look into the cosmos and they will discover different physics in different galaxies. Could it be that there's something going on in the other galaxies like this one? I'm not going to answer that. … “
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Pink Floyd release first new song since 1994 for Ukraine
Yahoo – AFP, April 7, 2022
Pink Floyd have written their first new song in almost 30 years to support Ukrainians, the band announced on Thursday.
"Hey, Hey, Rise-Up!" will be released on Friday, and be used to raise funds for humanitarian causes linked to the war.
It samples Andriy Khlyvnyuk, from one of Ukraine's biggest bands BoomBox, singing in Sofiyskaya Square in Kyiv in a clip that went viral.
Khlyvnyukh abandoned a world tour to return to Ukraine and help defend his country.
"We, like so many, have been feeling the fury and the frustration of this vile act of an independent, peaceful democratic country being invaded and having its people murdered by one of the world's major powers," Pink Floyd said on their official Twitter feed.
In a press release, band leader David Gilmour said he had been moved by Khlyvnyuk's video: "It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music."
He was able to speak with Khlyvnyuk from his hospital bed in Kyiv, where the singer was recovering after being hit by shrapnel in a mortar attack, the record company said.
"I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing. We both hope to do something together in person in the future," Gilmour said.
The image accompanying the song is of a sunflower, and was inspired by a viral video showing a Ukrainian woman insulting two armed Russian soldiers.
In it, she tells the soldiers: "Take these seeds and put them in your pockets. That way sunflowers will grow when you all rest here."
It is the first original music from Pink Floyd since 1994's "The Division Bell".
Gilmour tweeted his opposition to the war soon after Russia's invasion, saying: "Putin must go".
The band has also pulled their music from Russian and Belarusian streaming sites in protest at the invasion.
Monday, March 21, 2022
Pope in 'tectonic' shake-up of Vatican bureaucracy
Yahoo – AFP, Ella IDE, March 19, 2022
Francis, 85, put together a group of cardinals to advise him on how to enact reforms (AFP/Tiziana FABI) (Tiziana FABI) |
Pope Francis on Saturday followed through on a promise made ahead of his 2013 election and published a much-anticipated shake-up of the Vatican's powerful governing body.
The new constitution, which comes into effect on June 5, restructures parts of the unruly Roman Curia, and makes increasing the world's 1.2 billion Catholics the church's number one priority.
Among the most significant changes are the possibility for lay and female Catholics to head up Vatican departments, and the incorporation of the pope's sex abuse advisory commission into the Curia.
"Pope Francis has been working on a new organizational structure for the Vatican for nine years. It's a major aspect of his legacy," Joshua McElwee from the National Catholic Reporter said on Twitter.
'Tectonic shift'
Cardinals gathered for the conclave to elect a new pope in 2013 were divided between those who believed there were deep-rooted problems in the Curia and those who wanted to preserve the status quo.
Ex-pope Benedict XVI, who had just resigned, was reported to have tried and failed to clean up a body some even blamed for preventing the church from properly tackling the child sex abuse scandal.
Francis, 85, put together a group of cardinals to advise him over the years on how to reform the Curia, and has already enacted many changes as he moves to modernise the centuries-old institution.
The 54-page text entitled "Proclaiming the Gospel", which replaces a constitution drawn up by pope John Paul II in 1988, creates a new department for evangelisation, to be headed up by Francis himself.
Making himself "Chief Evangelizer" encapsulates a "tectonic shift to a more pastoral, missionary church," David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, said on Twitter.
In that vein, Francis says every baptised Christian is a missionary.
"One cannot fail to take this into account in the updating of the Curia, whose reform must provide for involvement of laymen and women, even in roles of government and responsibility," he said.
'Significant'
The constitution, released on the ninth anniversary of the inauguration of Francis' papacy, makes the pope's charity czar, currently Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, head of a department in its own right.
It also brings the Vatican's Commission for the Protection of Minors -- a papal advisory body -- into the office which oversees the canonical investigations of clerical sex abuse cases.
In doing so, the pope is "effectively establishing the Vatican's first safeguarding office", the Tablet's journalist Christopher Lamb said.
Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who heads the Commission, said it was a "significant move forward", which would give institutional weight to the fight against a scourge which has plagued the church globally.
But Marie Collins, an Irish survivor of clerical abuse who served on the commission before resigning in outrage in 2017 over the church's handling of the crisis, slammed it instead as a clear step back.
"The Commission has now officially lost even a semblance of independence," she said on Twitter.
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