CORKSCREW AND SLASHES AT SPIRAL GALAXY M51

Related pages   M51.htm   M51-1.htm   M51boris.htm

Integral   arms   connect two interacting galaxies
Vestigial   outline   of an original 2 arm bar galaxy
Horizontal slashes cross the face of the Whirlpool
Red scan line streaks spoil an image's details
Gap between galaxies filled with porridge
Validating 3d content in mono images
Coils of methusalah

Related page   Integral

CORKSCREW AND SLASHES AT SPIRAL GALAXY M51

NOTICE

Many of the following descriptions are meaningless until making an effort to see image pairs in 3d by eyesight, for instance by gently going cross eyed. 3d glasses are not needed.

There may seem redundancy in the following M51 images. Concider the problems, is the corkscrew around Boris distinct enough to reveal collision dynamics, and, are straight edged slashes across the face of the Whirlpool consequences of the collision, caused by Boris if in an orbit currently winding around to the left, now travelling rearward. Original photos used are dim, little to no show of outsizing surrounding Boris or the greater Whirlpool is seen in them.

Very vague hints of earlier collision involving larger interactors are suggested here. Evaded is the question as to exactly what kind of celestial object is Boris. It does not seem to have a black hole core in that none has been reported.

MULTIPLE COLLISIONS AT M51 Skip to horizontal slashes in M51

Photo by Bill McLaughlin.



The darkened band radiating west across the lower arms is usually seen in M51 images. The resolution of this image is not sufficient to deem if the darkened band is in the photo process, or part of the galaxy. If part of the galaxy, it seems the darkening streaks are tied to the bridge works made of slashes between the Whirlpool and nearby small Boris. More of this is further below.





A SMOKEY CORKSCREW SURROUNDS BORIS

In 3d, the next view of M51 clearly shows a ghost galaxy wrapped around the smaller satelite. Horizontal drifts in amorphous diffuse media cross the face, and a lower extension foreward eastward. It means at least three galaxies are involved at M51, if not that, the horizontal drifts are oddly unusual residuals of a trashing of the remote galaxy, meaning two galaxies only are colliding.

From an M51 photo by Bill McLaughlin. The image is blurry but serves its duty well in showing the widespread nature around Boris the remote little galaxy. This is not particularly exciting news except no astronomers seem to be discussing the existence of a corkscrew of diffuse matter envoloping the small remote galaxy herein called 'Boris' (for Boris the Torus).

Photo by Bill McLaughlin.





If M51 had an original long arm thin and winding below and well out into left field, (complimentary to the long arm winding out into deep space right), the satelite galaxy might be an incomer which first encountered the larger leftside outer arm out where the smoke first starts spiralling above the remote.

Assume we might that the remote is moving in forward roughly following the path of an original westward winding long left arm, a puzzle is how come so much pull is occuring between the big galaxy and the remote, concidering the significance of straight lines of pull in matter between the two, plus the major gravitational pinch which seems to be resulting from the lower arm being pulled vigorously toward the remote as a solid object with a rigid spine along its center axis so that it can be pulled as a rigid object in toto and not as a cohesion free gas made of plasmas.





The remote is either sucking the large arm in, eating it like a pac man, (if coming in from the rear left) or else the remote has orbited around the lower outer front face and snagging the arm is now pulling it along an orbital trajectory veering left to the rear around M51, in which case the corkscrew surrounding the remote may be rubble accumulated as the remote sailed into conference with M51 from the right. The long distance of the tail of the corkscrew could be effects of strong galactic winds blowing diffuse matter away from an active core. Why, actually, a corkscrew. Answers are not instantly self evident.

So which is correct, is pull from an approaching remote enough to cause the amazing mass-energy concentrated in bridging between the remote and the Whirlpool, or is tug from an orbiting remote now past the front face into western quarters enough to explain the intense bridges of action between the two bodies.

Anti matter in Boris or the Whirlpool has not been reported. Anti matter has distinct signals, easily reported if out there, but are not reported.

Vestigial outline of a 2 arm bar galaxy, it's original center is now Boris.



This above image argues a big original two-armed spiral galaxy involved, its originals now spread out diffusely in the corkscrew and in bands layering well below the main deck of the Whirlpool, as well as behind the Whirlpool. The upper tail heading west, and lower bands heading east below the Whirlpool, still maintain vestigial outlines of an original 2 arm bar galaxy.

Press key F11 to enlarge display area and better see the bar galaxy's total volume.





Dark object with thin ray in uppper left.



Strew seems to be rising from the dark object, joining the wide band over the top of the Whirlpool. Two signatures point to a real dynamic object - the ray, and the strew. What are the chances this dark object might be a rogue black hole travelling on its own along an original higher kenetic momentum trajectory, as the lighter weight rest of the bar galaxy is slowed and drawn toward the giant mass of the Whirlpool. The fact the object is dark and radially spread out is thought provoking of the idea of a rogue black hole, could not let the opportunity go by without mentioning it.

Vertical layering of the strew bands could be due to a horizontally canted bar galaxy being chewed by the towering heights of the vertically canted Whirlpool, the towering girth yanking stuff upward as well as spreading stuff out.

A thin ray spike is firing out in the north west above Boris, from a dark flat wagon wheel object. This mysterious object has been addressed in the Tristate.htm page.



In 3d the ray angle aims forward up against the left wall beside you.

Note: a new parameter for galaxy collision modelling is the swath sucking out of the top of Boris and arcing in a smooth wide band up around the left vertical flank of the Whirlpool follwing that big galaxy's outline. The swath is at sharp perpendicular angle to the long axis plane of the vestigial bar galaxy.

Note: in other M51 studies using vintage images it has been suggested that more than two galaxies are in collision due to vestigials around Boris. The above profile of a 2 arm bar galaxy, now diffused, the center warped (top peak bent out, bottom peak bent in toward the Whirlpool) fills a satisfying missing image as to the true nature of Boris. The satisfaction may be misappropriate. For the time being, the bar galaxy is looking good, really good. View the above image in 3d to see how realllly good.

IN INFRARED AND ULTRA VIOLET

In state of the art photos circ. Feb 2005, M51 is tiny in near Infrared, green in left photo next pair below, with no far Infred which would be red, as is the Whirlpool. The corkscrew halo glows but not brightly in near Infrared (green in the following pair of comparative photos). Boris has no presence to speak of in Ultra Violet, (Ultra violet at right). It means Boris is mostly a visible light (optical frequency) phenomenon. This makes Boris somewhat unusual for that reason alone.



More   details of M51 in tristate frequencies - warning, this page may be long loading in some browsers.

More   M51 from earlier photos.

HORIZONTAL SLASHES EXIST AT M51

If these lineal slashes across the lower face are real, it implies that Boris has dragged across the lower face in an orbit sailing into the rear around the left flank, circumventing the near foward plane across the foreward thrusting lower flank of M51, leaving partitions in its wake crossing the Whirlpool. (A partition can be said to be an abrupt transition between one side of a line vrs the other, usually patching errors in images these partitions in M51 are real, due to streaking and drag caused by the transition passage of Boris).

Digital photo by Tony and Daphne Hallas.





Slashing in question cross the Whirlpool in sereral places, these are horizontally inclined, including at bottom through the pinch.

Notice the amount of deep dish interplay in the field of depth amongst the arm segments. The left arm for instance eblows prominently out a long way forward toward us, then jogs vectoring rearward along a vertical receeding slant out the top of the image. The center coils inward along a sharp rearward declenting axis, the center core is far rearward from the lower frontface. This is because the Whirlpool is not a flatplane clockface. Picture a roulette wheel which has come loose and now hangs, its rim pulled forward its center still attached at the hub to the rear, its bottom tilted toward us, part of the assembly turned slightly away to the west. Now, wrinkle the whole thing a bit, squeezing it a bit with your hands against the left and right edges. Voila the Whirlpool.

Major topology distinctions are clearly seen in 3d. Note that 3d distinction is influenced by angles at which ambiant light from your background strikes the computer screen. Daylight from a bright window can diminish apparent 3d. Reasons why ambiant light angles can effect 3d are similar to causes of optical illusions, covered in the 3d-optic.htm page.

Regarding slashes cutting across M51, other M51 photos also show the same slashes, proving the photos are not faulty and that the horizontal front face slashes are real. The horizontal slashes do not exactly approximate the width of the slashes comprising the bridge between the two galaxies.

Film photo by Noao.



Digital photo by Tony and Daphne Hallas.



Both of the above views (Hallas and Noao) show horizontal bias in the form of faint radians heading west, initiating below the right edge of the core, the Hallas photo in particular shows many small horizontal line features, including above the core.

Digital photo by Newton telescope.


At left, a Newton telescope photo shows slashing in straight edged lines both long and short aimed left across the spiral deckplate starting below the right side of the core. These are amplified as patching errors in image engineering.

Patching errors - for example horizontal straight edges in the Newton telescope view at left - have confused the issue making suspect other horizontal slashing through the gravitational pinch as well. All of the above examples show that the lower horizontal slashing through the pinch is attached to the activities of Boris. The horizontal slashes below the core seem also to be encounter caused, but their surety and extent is less certain, because patching error is also present exaggerating staight edges in the lines.

HUBBLE HERITAGE VIEW

A Hubble M51 core photo settles the issue, that there are at least two horizontal slashes below the core, the slash farthest from the core is intermittant. The vectors of the slashes are more or less parallel heading west.

The next photo is rotated not quite 90 degress to the left, which makes it out of synch with all of the other M51 images shown in this page. For instance the parallel converging 'intruder' tracks crossin in a valley below the core actually vertically rises up a west side valley.




Short straight edged lines appear to be abrupt patching errors.

The Hubble Heritage view highlights actual horizontal slashed above the core, certifying that horizontally biased slashes are occuring at M51. The Hubble view does not make distinction that the slashes have been caused by a transveral passage across the front face by Boris. In a zoom slice rotated left by 165 degrees a below core pair of slashes converge to the right, suggesting a fast travelling small intruder has caused it, exiting the scene somewhere at the right through the arm. The intruder tracks rise at a vertical angle in a valley between arms in the upper left, in the above full screen Hubble view.



The white blob of hot new star births above the surface of the arm at left may be too low down in the frame anyway to be the intruder. Most intruder tracks are wide where disruption initiates, converging toward current most recent intruder position. These Hubble intruder tracks do not show up clearly in other M51 images, it is a question of frequencies chosen, and power of resolution.

NEXT, VINTAGE BLACK AND WHITE

A straight line across the top of the core in this vintage black and white photo seems to contain image error included.



It is possible astronomers have been confused by the existence of horizontal slashes on the face of M51, making it difficult to match patches in a seamless way so that any slashes that resulted were obviously in the galaxy.





Gendler color photo

Gendler M51 photos show a remarkably straight edged slash crossing the face above the core.



Gendler black and white photo



Coelum Photo

A Coelum consortium photo clearly shows slashes above and below the core. This puts to rest notions that these slashes are faults in image engineering.





Blowup of the central region shows a lot of lines streaking across, some of these may (or may not) be paint brush imparted in the image composite. On the other hand Coelum photos are compilations of a number of different views and perhaps at least one of the masks includes at least some of the extra streaks as real artifacts at M51.

Newton Photo

A Newton Telescope M51 photo shows horizontal straight edges above and below the bore.



The Newton photo, full image, shows the crackling bands where the bridge connects to the underscore of Boris, in better than average detail, the photo does not enhance to reveal more of the bridge or surrounding diffuse corkscrew. The area below to the right with the most crackle, is slanting this way, nearer the camera. See the Coelum photo above for bridge superstructures between the galaxies, these details are missing in the Newton photo.







M101

Major straight edged slashes are not unheard of. Giant spiral galaxy M101 looks like portions were sheared away with scissors and other photos joined on.





The M101 supersize looks like this. The seeming large views above are actually a small central area featuring the rattle extending vertically to the left of the core.



This next N51 photo does not show slashes clearly but does reveal an even larger diffuse superstructure surrounding the Whirlpool, and more intricacies in the smokey corkscrew around Boris.



TWO MORE COLLISION CLUES CAN BE SEEN AT M51

A Spitzer Infrared image contains a huge zodiac band of far Infrared glowing matter crossing laterally North/east to South/west behind the Whirlpool.





Optical image left. Infrared image right



The hot Infrared center of Boris is not matched in visible light, the Infrared center is smaller, and shifted to the right, meaning a possibility that the Boris core is long aiming backward into rearspace the rear portion masked in opaque optical frequencies. A short Infrared frond arcing to the left from the offshifted Infrared core is not matched in visible light, another clue that significant constructions in Boris lay behind the scenes hidden from normal light.

The Gendler color photo, due to color frequencies chosen for the digital image, show two curved oval areas of darker media in the lower right far outflanks, these large ovals are not seen in similar clarity in other M51 images.







The two large ovals in the Gendler image are heatsinks. The zodiac Infrared band in the Spitzer image is a heat flush. Each has some explaining to do (not here). The pronounced cell structure in M51 in Infrared is a phenomena shared by galaxies in Infrared. See more comparisons of cell structures between galaxies in the Tristate.htm page.

RED RASTERING SCAN LINES CROSS THE IMAGE

Rastering scan lines (red streaks) are crossing the entire Coelum image left to right, which means some of the information in the gap, above the tether slashes, is compromised. It seems the Coelum image is showing some of the bridgework in the gap but not clearly.



Exaggerated zoom shows faint scan lines at left, and a straight edge patch error across the lower plane of the bridge.



A full view exaggerated expansion shows more clearly the damage done to the whole of the photo by the spurious scan lines.

Click to see the smoking gun.

In exaggerated green enhancement, the red scan streaks are suppressed and more possibly correct detail is seen in the upper regions of the gap.



The horizontal latticing in the gap roughly approximates the straight edged partitioning which intrinsically occurs across the Whirlpool face. It may be a co-incidence that the red scan lines follow the same demarcation lines of partioning in the galaxy. The co-incidence may have been caused by imaging error triggered by the partition lines, which are real artifacts in the galaxy, but can be confusing to anyone who doesn't know this.






We can assume there is interactive fill tugging between the two galaxies all the way up the gap between them, exactly the nature of the fill is not definative, yet, in images such as this.

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An obnoxiously enhanced black and white zoom shows significant quantities of highly disturbed matter in the gap. The matter in this black and white, has no salient features to lock on in formulating a telescope's best image. It has to be known that matter fills the gap and that this matter is a porridge, amorphously plain in texture, in order to photograph it.








Notice that a straight edge aimed straight to the nexus below the light bulb in Boris, is parallel to the red scan lines and not the vector of the tether, so this in the Coelum image zoom at left, is not real.

Seeming partitioning along the same line in the pulled back black and white zoom, disappears completely in the close up black and white zoom.

According to the further above Coelum color views, red slashes do seem to be in the gap, these confused by the presence of the interferring scan lines. Squibs of red are seen on the (left) farside of Boris, these squibs being little tits of red sticking out, if not dragged out snagged in the scan lines creating false positives. Remember when, as recently as the latter 90's astronomers argued that there was no such thing as a bridge connecting Boris and the Whirlpool and that anyone thinking they saw a tether was hallucinating.

THE COILS OF METHUSALAH

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I have been showing this showcase stereo view of coils since this Hubble image first came out soon after the initial faulty telescope was repaired. These coils are so awesome, they have been named 'The Coils Of Methusala' (Medusa).





The center with its s-shaped core is so far down in what could be called a gravity well, it seems you could never throw a marble that far perhaps the gravity gradiant above the open top of the core is so intense you can jump there in one leap, gravity just keeps sucking you in all the way to the torid rapid inner whirls that will then spin you insistently sideways, then perhaps spit you out, the length of your body curling in a slight arc like fingers of flame reaching out and up around a middle revolving at slipstreaming velocities.

The coils are featured in a study of different core types in the Cores.htm page.

A Hubble heritage image details the core in great detail. Next are two 3d views of the Heritage coils. Original image, and zooms.

Note - the Heritage M51 core image is one of the few from Hubble sources that is well evolved in public release, that is, very little enhancement is possible without spoiling the image. The usual scoring of points from Hubble releases is in enhancing the images handsomely in order to start seeing the image's more salient rich details. Not in this case.







The partitioning above core (straight edge slash) cited in numerous sundry M51 images further above, is at a canted angle north/east to south/west in the above images due to this image's non standard release orientation. Another thin straight line, horizontal, directly above the core, may be the track of a fast travelling intruder which passed through the inner core area close to the black hole's thunder and lightning, seemingly heading east.

If an intruder, it had to be travelling fast because it's track is not bent by gravity, except, in the area to the left of the core slipstreaming seems to be in effect, sloughing remains of the track are moved slightly upward breaking the track up into what will be increasing irregularities, due to variant rotation speed slipstreamings.



It seems there are some hard edged patch error lines mingled with soft edged partition lines crossing east to west both immediately above and below the core. When the patch error hard lines are corrected, the long extend of the thin streaks may in fact vanish. Then again, perhaps not if caused by rumble with Boris passing by at high speed.

COUNTER MOTIONS - REVOLVING ONE WAY, ROTATING THE OTHER, CREATES S-SHAPED (NOT ARCED) AVENUES OF INTERACTION

Galaxies interracting afford a unique look at simple mechanics. Galaxy's whose orbital bypass and rotation are synchronous (such as Boris and the Whirlpool) form an arc of interaction. Winding, in the form of s-shape streaming, is also a variable, shown next in another pair of galaxies in collision.

AM0500 - 620







Where the rotation is opposite to the sailing by pass, an s-shaped stream is formed.

For example, Am0500 are an interacting pair, with tongs streaming from one into the other. In this case the streaming curves from the left region of the foreground larger spiral galaxy to the right lower region of the rear object whose cant is more vertical. Notice that the tongs attach exactly to one end of the core of the galaxy in the rear, as is the case with Boris and the Whirlpool, not the middle, in either.

Very dim hints difficult to bring foreward in the low dim medias of the Am0500 original photo, indicate a winding road continues beyond around the far outer right flank of the smaller galaxy, lengthening the overall distance of the s-curve interaction due to winding effects of countrary motions - revolving in orbit in one direction while rotating on axis in the opposite direction. The original photo enhanced does not tell us if the rear galaxy is rapidly sailing eastward past the foreground spiral galaxy, or visa versa that the spiral galaxy is rapidly cruising westward, or if both have similar velocities in passing.





Numerous short slashes also cross between the two bodies, seen streaming along their left flanks, crossing the interspace media between them, indicating more advanced interactions than first meet the eye. A better photo (higher resolution) will certainly help in understanding this very busy situation.





The rope tonging into the lower right of the rear galaxy can be called an integral arm (integral because it maintains shape under strong gravitational stress). The subject of integral arms is pursued in the Integral.htm page.

CLOSE TOGETHER GALAXIES NGC 1531/1532 HAVE EXTENSIVE INTERACTION

Ngc 1531/2 color original - from Gemini South Telescope.

Dss enhanced black and white photo at left.

A glancing colliding galaxy pair - official captions for the color image report the rear galaxy seems close enough to appear to be drawing matter from the rear hem of the foreground spiral galaxy.

In real life they have been engaged for some time in that a long arm (tether) winding up and around in a sweeping arc from right side to rear has had time to form its own path above the upper right edge of the large foreground galaxy. Another longarm appears in the Dss photo, extending into deep space to the right, indicating that this is a yo-yo class galaxy.

ENHANCED TO EXPOSE MORE INTERACTION

In the colored Gemini photo the tether arm is very tenuous, poorly seen, cropped at right and at the top of the photo (poorly seen even after major levels of image enhancements).





We learn two facts of life regards certain kinds of galaxy collisions. In this case, a smaller lightweight is snagged in speedy angular motion around a heavyweight anchor, and secondly, as the anchor stays more or less stationary the small orbiter can draw out a new arm from the anchored mass.

Histogram Equalize



In histogram equalize, the extra arm is clearly revealed arcing up around behind connecting with the smaller galaxy at the rear. This seems an arcing integral arm due to parallel rotations in both galaxies, unlike the s-shaped tether arm of AM0500 (shown further above) due to counter rotations (that is, one galaxy is rotating and passing by in counter clockwise motion to the other galaxy creating the science fiction silhouette of AM0500).

At Ngc 1531/1532 one galaxy is sailing past the other in a direction in synch with at least one of either galaxy's rotation on axis. If the rear galaxy is vertically aligned it's rotation on axis will not input any curvatures through motion in resulting integral and/or tethering arms.



The original is hazy so salient details are not possible. Less salient details can be pointed out, for instance two forward thrusting turbo roarers hove foreward from the lower end, either side, of the rear galaxy the roarers seeming to hang over the foreground galaxy.

This, in conjunction with the tethering arcing arm which is a representation in time of sustained interaction, reveal a strong field forces connection between the core of the rear galaxy, and overall whole shape of the foreground galaxy, suggesting terms of possible field charges conjugation in the plasma's activities, that the foreground galaxy is a positive charge (spread diffuse) and the rear galaxy is negative (point concentration all to one end - lower - of the rear galaxy).

Point source concentration is one of the most salient features of both Am0500, and M51, where both have tethers connecting directly into one end of the smaller galaxy's core, the same property as seen now in Ngc 1531/2. That is three for three. Point sources are a fact of life in the universe of collisions.





According to what we can see represented in these above enhancements, the rear galaxy (smaller) is the orbiter, on a tilted inclination rising above the plane of the foreground galaxy around a right elevation, and is currently descending into a plane below the foreward galaxy's maindeck as the orbiter continues toward the left in it's path of motion now tilted downward.

The images per se do not tell us how much of the orbit is due to right rotation of the big galaxy on axis, and left high speed motion of the small galaxy in anticlockwise orbital pass involving changing angular direction in it's original vectors.

Histogram equalize shows a drawn out band of low luminous materials between the two galaxies.



VINTAGE DSS PHOTO



A vintage Dss black and white shows a longarm tail to the right, and extra white stuff in the upraised arm arcing above the main plane from the right around the the rear galaxy. The rudimentary outline is of a yo-yo class galaxy, which explains the double decks (one above the other, seen in the color image closeups) in the leading forward edge of the large galaxy. A meteor streak cuts diagonally across the black and white image.

The 3d view of the black and white photo in zooms shows the small galaxy may be almost hanging overhead, like an egyptian sun-ra god, but, to the rear.





Colored enhancement is unable to bring forth more salient details about the small galaxy. Here it is in closeup.























VALIDATING 3D CONTENT IN MONO IMAGES

The following two images are identical, repeated twice. Anyone concerned about the legitimacy of viewing mono images as 3d can put their concerns to rest in viewing this outshelf by focusing the two images together using just eyesight. Surprise!



No claim is being made that the above is 100 percent full stereo as if standing there in real life viewing the vista. The claim is the degree of 3d seen is technically correct. No object even tiny in the picture is out of place or distorted. Notice how hard to identify features in mono, identitify themselves easily when moved out into 3d space and stand separate from the confusion of flatland.

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