It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,
and the inhabitants
thereof are as grasshoppers;
that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Isaiah 40:22
"What should an astronomer think of a galaxy with tremendous mass but very few stars? Karl Gephardt of the University of Texas in Austin and his colleagues studied one recently, and he said, "This is a really oddball galaxy…. It's almost all black hole."It's odd because astronomers over the years have invented an array of models to depict galaxies forming by themselves. But these newly described galaxies with jumbo black holes confront the assumption that galaxies formed with no outside help.
Gephardt and his team used the Hobby-Eberly telescope at the McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains in West Texas to pinpoint six galaxies with far fewer stars than expected, based on their overall masses. One of the six, photographed by the Hubble telescope, is named NGC 1277. Fourteen percent of its mass is from its central black hole, instead of the approximately 0.1 percent in most other galaxies. The researchers published their description in the journal Nature. The standard reaction from secular astronomers who observe oddball galaxies is to admit that their theories on how galaxies form need revision. As an example, Princeton University cosmologist Jim Peebles told New Scientist in 2011, "Galaxies are complicated and we don't really understand how they form. It's really an embarrassment."3 This was in response to newfound galaxies that were inexplicably flat, without the expected central bulge of stars.
Astronomers offered similar responses to discovering what they consider mature-looking galaxies in some of the most distant reaches of space—places that supposedly represent the early universe. The problem with them is that the universe had not been around long enough to form those "mature" spiral galaxies under their own assumptions.4
Galaxies also have magnetic fields that have not yet been explained in the context of "billions of years" dogma.
The Nature study authors admitted that although these relatively nearby galaxies are uncommon in local space, "They are quantitatively similar to the typical red, passive galaxies at much earlier times [much more distant space]." But if galactic evolution is true, then the faraway "younger" ones should not have evolutionarily matured and the nearby older ones should appear mature. But like spiral galaxies and short-lived blue stars, these big black hole galaxies are found both near and far with the same levels of apparent maturity. It is as if they are parts of a fully formed and purposefully displayed stellar creation."
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