![]() ![]() But the researchers found that not all of the magnetic field simply rotates with the spiralling gas. As the charged gas particles rotate, they strengthen the magnetic field. The magnetism results from the hot gas circling the black hole. When averaging across all the data, Dexter said, polarized light traveling in one direction "canceled out" polarized light traveling in the opposite direction, so the proportion of polarized light looked artificially low. But as the researchers zoomed in on the polarized fraction, they realized that between 10% and 20% of the glowing ring was polarized. Initially, it looked as though only 1% to 3% of the light from around the black hole was polarized. "Digging out those relatively weaker signals and accounting for larger error was an immense effort," Dexter told Live Science. What's more, the research team had to separate the signal of that magnetic field from the error introduced by Earth's atmosphere over 11 different telescopes, and by the internal instrumentation in those telescopes. The polarized light is only a portion of the overall light surrounding the black hole, which is created by matter traveling very quickly and rubbing together, generating energy and a glow. To create the new magnetic field maps researchers had to pick out the polarization from a very noisy dataset. So, fortunately, it appears that there isn't actually a black hole in the center of the Earth - although there may be some form of black hole where the Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences's editorial standards are supposed to be."Many people have worked for a long time on how magnetic fields let gas fall into black holes, how do they launch jets, and we're really now ready to start testing those theories directly with polarized black hole images," said Jason Dexter, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and coordinator of the EHT Theory Working Group. The most likely explanation, according to Cambridge University mathematician Sarah Rasmussen, is that the authors purposely submitted a ridiculous paper in order to expose "predatory journals" that purport to be normal, peer-reviewed publications, but in reality apply little scrutiny to material that they publish, often in order to collect publication fees.Īs Rasmussen pointed out, the lead author on the paper has previously published a paper about the threat posed by predatory journals.Īnd, as a nail in the coffin, she also noticed that the Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences was previously fooled by a sting operation by Science, back in 2013, which attempted to get outlandish papers published in journals that claimed to peer review their material. Here's Paul Byrne, an associate professor of planetary science at North Carolina State University: ![]() But its claims, about a black hole formed by something "like DNA," are hilariously tabloid-esque. The bylines on the paper do appear to correspond to actual researchers at a variety of European universities. When researchers dug the paper up this week - it was published about a year ago, but attracted little attention until now - they expressed consternation about both the contents of the paper and how it ended up in what appears to be a vaguely credible scientific journal. "By compacting this long object, a curved space-time emerges, and some properties of black holes emerge." "Size of this DNA black brane is 109 times longer than the size of the earth’s core and compacted interior it," it continues. Then it gets even weirder, like a Mad Lib of conspiracy theories and scientific-sounding words. ![]() "We show that the existence of life on the earth may be a reason that this black hole like object is a black brane that has been formed from biological materials like DNA." "Recently, some scientists from NASA have claimed that there may be a black hole like structure at the centre of the earth," the paper begins. ![]() An outrageously strange paper claims, among other things, that there's a black hole at the center of the Earth.Īnd somehow, it got published in an actual scientific journal, the Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences - baffling mainstream scientists. ![]()
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