CENTAURUS - A GALAXY COLLISION CHALLENGES LOGIC FROM EVERY DIRECTION

Of all the different ways it is possible to fill a thought balloon with ideas as to how the collision is unfolding, no set of images connects concretely enough to be able to say 'this' is the only kind of collision that can be happening, then go on and describe the details.

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Here, the main problem with any ideas are the tendrils pooting out sideways along the western helm of the zig zag. Splatter trails like this are not seen anywhere else in galaxies, candidly speaking.

It is possible the elbow arm is coming out, that is, specifically, on the move toward us on a westerly vector so as to skirt by well out beyond our elbow.



The other flange on the right side may also be moving toward us, along the same westerly canting vector, especially true if both segments are arm cuts from an original really thick big python of an arm. Major thick arms like main tubes coming into a sewage treatment plant are not at all uncommon among spiral galaxies.

If this is true, it means these are fragments each separate of what might have once been a very thick powerful arm. The right flange is thick anyway, with vertical rim racks around it. The symmetry of it's dynamic details are almost all in opposite kind to details in the left hand arm segment.



Midway between the two arms is a concentrated extreme hot spot concidered to be a black hole concieled behind the front view.

The black hole is strong enough to drag matter (the long stright rod from the left comprising the perfectly straight part in the zig zag), pinching dramatically as it dives directly into an an exceedingly small visible focal point from which issue three different jets (all on the same north/western trajectory) in the midpoint between the two forward moving arm segments.



It seems as if the black hole has a grip that will just not let go. If this is true we have learned something new about black holes - that they can eat matter going straight in, the meal does not have to circle first.



If this is true, the eating might be the cause of the lineal straight line jet out the top of the center point, from our persective, rearward nehind the scenes the jets issue from beyond where the pipe stem vanishes. This means to say that the reason why the front face of the zig zag is so open and uncovered is the black hole has gobbled up everything passing by to the outside toward us. It means the collision originated in the rear with the galaxy (now seen in parts as the zig zag) moving forward toward us along a vector more or less the same as the drifting forward of the zig zag.


It has to be understood that the right hand arm segment, in drifting forward on a westerly vector means it is rising about the center point, in other words its leading edge at center is somewhat farther out than the focal point. The leading edge in the right flange is the outer curvature of the segment, closest to us where we see its western end overhanging the centerpoint.

Since there seems to many local vertical circular motions (wedding rings) it seems the two galaxies may have eased together while travelling along a gently converging path. Neither galaxy had enough momentum (speed) to cause one to arc around the other so that arms become incredibly snarled as a collision occurs.

Images above due to whiteout in the original show thin dark strings aiming to the center of the zig zag. The rift is actually wide, with intensly sonic coherent disturbances along a shaft to the left in the zia zag, as witnessed by the following Hubble image, enhanced at home substantially to reveal the coherencies in the shaft in the rift.



Hubble original is next - stuff in the zig zag shaft is hard to see.



Central shaft rods are a hallmark of bar galaxies particular those going through rapid changes in morphology. Bar galaxy Ngc 1365 offers an excellent example of an active rotating bar shaft exctending from a center core.

Boiling outpouring smoky tongs to the right.



In Centaurus A, a shaft rod to the left.



The width of the crack to the left is basically the interactive cross section of the active black hole center area within.

SPECULATION

Low confidence level.

In the case of Centaurus A one galaxy is passing through the other and it seems the other galaxy had greater density, expecially in its black hole.

Ice cream frosting on the lips are hot new blue stars, concentrated in a line along the right upper lip, and in a horizontally canted jut plane under the zigazg on the left of center.



The psychedelic lips, in thin lines of blue lighting, are not overlooking a deep valley, they are behind the valley.





Along the upper lip tiny tongs of extra hot blue stars jut up. Below the zig zag on the left the hot blue stars are in a horizontal plane jutting far forward where they seem to have been scattered forward by thrust forces after the fact of their compression forces creation.

The psychedelic lips are the consequence of the arms segments punching through the halo of the other galaxy.

Next view shows horns of new star birth extending off the elbow joint to the left.



Something of a mystery is how the galaxy is shielded in specific wavelength frequencies of different select plasmas. Radio shows only a vague bisymmetric pair of small vertical flanges. Infrared shows only the center zone. Ultra violet shows only the psychedelic lips, except the lips are as thick as a flattened hamburger in ultra violet. X-rays shows vague spreadouts around surrounding deep space and only a hot tiny needle flame from a blow torch in the middle where the pinching gravity grab from the black hole is maximally intense. And every visible light image seems a little different, depending on frequencies used.

See the Tristate.htm page for select plasmas (warning long loading page).



My guess is that the vertical flanges shown in green false color are (at least in residual) the other galaxy's centeral disk, assuming an original central disk only - with no arms occilating up and down in windings. A typical elliptical galaxy's disk seems to be very thin and this thinness could be explained as to why the colored green radio flanges look the way they do, thin.

It seems however that the forward face of the green outlines are also more lineal than arced regards vector to the active center point, suggesting gravity is arguing briskly here too, regards an initial thin disk, pinching it in in the same way as a thick spiral arm of the first galaxy has been pinched in by ensnaring gravity, allowing thoughts to form that perhaps two black holes have merged, which, during the reconstruction phase of the collision, have a smaller event horizon radius than it will be eventually after the gobbling and grabbing has ceased and the resulting black hole has had time to stablize. If the holes are obiting very close together, it could account for the mysterious tendrils tonging out in the left arm of the zig zag (rythmical peaks in extra grab then release), and similarly for the right hand arm segment where circular collars along the arm segment suggest rythmic patterns of some kind have been periodically occuring.

The interferring effects erupting from the center point grabber have manifested in horizontally shooting lineal momentum gobs forming pseudopods along a leading edge, and vertical rings of angular momentums on the other side of the center point's electrical, magnetic, and gravitational antennas.

NEXT - IN X-RAY

Long ray firing out of super galaxy centaurus a. two jets seen in x-rays.

Long thin x-ray jet maintains its width like a straightened out pin worm, however lateral drifts of some unseen nature are kinking the strand slightly.

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Very high enhancement of this Chandra composite x-ray (red) and visible light image of famous Centaurus A galaxy shows a much longer red jet extending north/west and a complimentary vertical red area eminating from the other side of the core, this right side is spread out and short in distance suggesting the stream is bunching up against something. Or else, the multi faceted black hole forbodes a single stream complimentary (two long thin streams similar).

The simplest explanation is the lower stream is firing through a piece of the central disk on its way out the collisions close to source scattering the beam and slowing it to where all particles come to a stop within a shell boundry no further out than a certain distance.



3d view (focus the two images together by eyesight to reveal 3d) shows that the right side colored halo bulge is not in the form of an egg but rather extends rearward as a large drift of disturbance. Actually, the halo is oval, the bright blue center area with slashed midrift slants forward creating an assymetric illusion in the appearance of the diffuse outer shell oval.

The x-ray ray (red) is projecting at an angle into the north/west quadrant which means it is much longer than the mono image in flatplane indicates. The enhancement also reveals a perhaps unknown feature, that the galaxy is confirmed oblong with a pervasive extra push in its outer visible dim light plasma extending to the east beyond the main bright center which is circular.


At left, this purple tinted view of Centaurus A by Dss shows the galaxy has distinct diffuse matarials extending in both directions beyond the limited oval egg with slash seen in the image used for the Chandra composite.

The purple view is rotated slightly clockwise giving a slightly different overview persective in that the main north/south long axis is slightly out of phase to the various ray vectors in other images herein shown.

NEXT- IN ULTRA VIOLET

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Centaurus A in ultra violet, by the Galex telescope. Not much is seen, the uv component is small, or masked. The yellow tinged race track oval in the lower left of the image is an artifact of the telescope.



The race track oval in yellow at lower left is a byproduct of the telescope.

A SECOND JET IS SHORT AND HOOKED

In fact this green flange is not really a jet, it is a view in radio frequencies.








Image at left shows red x-ray forward firing beam bunching up. Most of the material fired foward is bunching up within the confines of the zigzag cross section. Farther travelling x-ray radiant bits are clustering further out to the right a concentrating area beyond the shell (whose mantle is the visible light color view in this composite).

Another x-ray view is shown in blue color blue featuring a different plasma, radiating bunchup in the forward facing front of the zigag does not appear.

In both this blue colored x-ray version and the red x-ray at left, the zigzag is not apparent. It means the zigzag is either not radiating x-ray plasmas, or the x-ray frequencies are being blocked.



An x-ray and ultra violet composite from Galex shows thick roping strands of high frequency broad band plasmas (x-rays) in red drifting around in curls in a greater mantle well outside the realm of the visible light zigzag (its ultra violet outline is weakly shown in blue).



Star sized vague circles and similar sized dark holes are echoes of technology imparted by the telescopes. Faint tiny slashes of ultra violet in the upper left may be traces at where the collision first initiated, suggesting the whole conglomerate is drifting to the south/west. This further suggests the red ray in x-ray is being created by being left behind as the conglomerate drifts in an opposite direction, the red x-ray counter beams firing in the forward direction is bunching up by the conglometates foward drift.



Composite from Chandra shows long red radio jet, and x-ray in blue, purple are x-ray and radio combined. The composite shows no zigzag features in either radio or x-ray plasma broadbands which are othewise said to be amongst the brightest image components at Centaurus A.

NEXT - IN INFRARED

Centaurus A in infrared, by the Spitzer telescope. A zig zag is seen prompting astronomers to remark on the remarkable parallellogram. The zig zag is not a geometric road sign in space chance occurrences in perspective have hightened the infrared area's outline, which is not really any different than the slash seen in visible light telescopes.

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The red image looks as much as ever a trashed bar galaxy, whose profile appears in the far infrared, and the elliptical galaxies 'halo' appears in blue - the Spitzer false color used for the near infrared (near next door to visible light).

Next, an all red release from Spitzer features a parallellogram in yellow stretching out marked space deep in the center of the trashed bar galaxy.



Red lazer ray light spikes are identical to light spikes overlaying the brighter nearby stars. A vague representation of the prominent vertical radio flare, is seen arcing up thickly in the upper left.

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Close up inspection in an enhanced mid view suggests the parallellogram is not a geometry constructed by the ghost of euclid. The seeming parallel lines are straight enough to point out possible intense strong gravity dragging matter in, in straight lines to a gobbler. How the lines hold their crosswidth for such long distances on either side of the gobble is a reason I am just going to ignore, no good ideas.

What can be understood is that faint yellow traces in more typical sweeps and swirls are seen around the parallellogram suggesting the parallellogram may be just stark co-incidence from chance image parts linking up (three different segments make what seem a linked up straight line, for instance).



In stereo, a wide center plane is evident especially involving the zig zag on the left hand side, extending back from the elbow jog to the rear edge behind the galaxy.



Small faint domes are floating both above and around the intense center, these domes are more clearly seen in stereo (focus image pair together by eyesight).

Next we see patchwork quilting in the Spitzer IR image, showing how this image was pieced together by multiple small square photo rasters, the slant of the patchwork following exactly the vectors of the telescope light rays from nearby big stars.

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NEXT - IN RADIO



In radio (upper and lower flanges in contour outlines) shows overmasked artifacts which are not all that large, the flanges in length top to bottom passing through the center core are not as long in total length as is the cross sectional width of the zig zag.



NEXT - IN VISIBLE LIGHT



In the infrared, we see a z-ray (red) to the right falling exactly along the same vector as false light spikes at a nearby star from the telescope, which means the red ray is not real. How it appears, remotely out there with no connection to a bright star source, is a bit of a mystery, probably easily solved.



NEXT - OUTER SHELLS

Outshells ripple around Centaurus A seen in this next image downloaded from the APOD archives under search term 'Centaurus A'. These shells are not seen at all in recognizable forms in normal telescope views, very discrete differences in image ingredients (akin to scoping the background microwave of the universe) were used by astronomers to bring out the concentric ripples.

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Each ringular ripple segment is in a different plane, with a slight thrusting bias extending forward in an interleaving shelf at the lower right. This bias is interesting because all Centaurus A images show a thrust of bias in the same area, but all of the images are indistinct regards exactly what exists in the bias.

The resulting understanding is that Centaurus A is a flattened body not spherical, as if the upper portion has been pushed rearward and the lower portion forward by being flattened between the palms of your hand. In other words, it exists as a bulgy smeared out white blood cell rather than a round bead of a virus. Furthermore, the central bright area containing the zig zag slash, is a shelf prominently thrusting foward.

The shelf is not the central disk of a full fledged elliptical galaxy which is in all ways spherical, and whose galaxy's disks tend to be very thin like a pizza pie plate slightly warped. The shelf is not the maindisk of a spiral galaxy either, which lack hard right angled elbow jogs that are the principle topology of the zig zag (normal spiral galaxy cores lack elbow joints) and are seen here and there in bar galaxies - at a point beyond the core's long rod (turning shaft) different galaxy motions combine to cause a rapid shift in the core end's direction, akin to twirling a baton off axis so that streamers bunch up in a sharp elbow joint at the end of the baton.

It is probable that both disk forms are being dramatically morphed in this particular collision - thin spread out circular disk from an elliptical galaxy, and long core rod from a bar galaxy. The Sombraro galaxy has a wide thin round disk plane.

SOMBRARO GALAXIES THIN DISK

Sombraro galaxy (M104) with halo removed, revealing a thin disk.



Sombraro galaxy (M104) with thin disk and halo





The disk is more or less circular but with usual bisymmetry warps at pole locations on either side of the disk. See descriptions of bisymmetry in galaxies in the Bilatera.htm page.



The Sombraro is an excellent example for demonstrating elliptical galaxy disks, instead of being obscured deep with an opaque mantle, the halo of the Sombraro is less than the diameter of the disk, exposing the disk to full width.



An extra bulge in the rim pushes out where material in issuing out laterally into deep space near the limb of the left side rim. There is also a bit of material rising above the rim's outer east flank.

However, speculation again, with even lower confidence level - the bellring (see further above) configuration suggests a rearward motion of the zig zag signalled by the extra degree of forward thrust in the raft of interleaving ripples jutting forward in the lower right. Conversely, the forward thrust in the lower right was there to begin with belonging to a partially flattened elliptical galaxy. (Ps. interleaving is a product of at least two independent sources causing patterning, each source in motion in a different recurring polar plane of activity.

The concensus is (reasonable certainty) that the zig zag is what is left of an original bar galaxy similar to Ngc 1365, and is currently emerging into the open from the shell of what was originally an elliptical galaxy with a prominent halo which was of a flattened kind rather than perfectly spherical.



NGC 1365 - similarity in core shaft, includes boiling tongs at right curling upward (as in Centaurus A), but both Ngc 1365 arms vector in a direction opposite to the zig zag in Centaurus A. Rotating the Ngc 1365 persective can bring the left arm into the same perspective as the zig zag, but will end result the right arm aiming staight out toward us. As a dynamic example for mysteries involving the zig zag in Centaurus A, Ngc 1365 fails. As a model for the zig zag, Ngc 1365 is perfect.



The forward jutting shelf in Centaurus A's lower right could well enough be a byproduce of what was once a fan of short arms as seen forming a lower right forward jutting shelf in Ngc 1365.





Note the similarities - a zig zag on the left (it even has tongs rifting forward similar to Centaurus A) and a shelf extending well forward in the plane of the lower right, as well, vertical coils of roiling smoke to the right of the core. Etc.



More Centaurus A images

Further reading   Galaxies.htm
Further reading   1365.htm
Further reading   Bilatera.htm
Further reading   Symmetry.htm
Further reading   3d-sombr.htm
Further reading   3d-somb1.htm

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