Galactic Spaghetti Monster

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Respected science publication New Scientist has provided us startling evidence of the FSM in a report of the phenomenon pictured above, which they’ve termed the “Galactic ‘Spaghetti Monster’”.

Long-lived magnetic fields are sustaining a mammoth network of spaghetti-like gas filaments around a black hole, a new study suggests. Previously, it was not clear what prevented the delicate filaments from being destroyed by competing gravitational forces.

The black hole lies at the heart of a large galaxy known as NGC 1275, which itself lies near the centre of a cluster of galaxies called Perseus.

As the black hole sucks in gas from its surroundings, it powers jets of matter that produce bubbles of energetic particles in the surrounding cluster gas. As these bubbles grow and rise, cooled gas from NGC 1275’s core gets drawn into long tendrils in their wake, like the strings that trail behind balloons.

Until now, no one was sure quite how old these gas filaments were or how they avoided being torn apart by the galaxy cluster’s immense gravitational forces. “Quite what the filaments are and how they are produced hasn’t been known,” says study author Andrew Fabian of Cambridge University in the UK.

But Hubble Space Telescope images used in the study, the most detailed yet taken of the galaxy, are changing that.

They show the gas filaments seem to be made up of a number of thin threads. These threads are so tenuous that magnetic fields are the only thing that can protect them from being destroyed, says Fabian.

You can read all about it here.

Thanks, New Scientist!

19 Responses to “Galactic Spaghetti Monster”
  1. 1 - lari - Aug 22nd, 2008

    Now it’s clear even science is proving us right.

    RAmen!

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  2. 2 - cabinboy wolter - Aug 22nd, 2008

    wow i couldnt imagine the fsms beuty and glory befor,

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  3. 3 - Violet Lee - Aug 22nd, 2008

    Cue harps and organ music.

    A sign from His Almighty Noodlyness.

    RAmen.

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  4. 4 - Lucomel - Aug 22nd, 2008

    we were all wrong, he is not invisible, it is just a lie?

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  5. 5 - Iron Mike - Aug 22nd, 2008

    This is certainly better proof than a picture of Jesus on a cheese sandwich.

    rAmen

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  6. 6 - Chappy Fokker - Aug 22nd, 2008

    HAHAHAHA!
    This is the best ‘proof’ of the existence of his sauce-i-ness.

    Link has funny comments too.

    -chappy

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  7. 7 - Ron Hager - Aug 23rd, 2008

    Proof! We have proof! What do they have? Stories, fables, myth and images in toast! Toast is not proof!

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  8. 8 - Penne Pete - Aug 23rd, 2008

    Proof that the FSM is immune to gravity. No wonder he can fly.

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  9. 9 - Steve L - Aug 23rd, 2008

    Ned Flanders: “Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. Well I say that there are some things we don’t want to know. Important things!”
    I haven’t read the gospel yet. Are you supposed to avert your gaze or can the noodley one become visible or should FSM be searched for or taken on faith?

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  10. 10 - Greg - Aug 24th, 2008

    That is simply the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

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  11. 11 - feragorn - Aug 24th, 2008

    Now they need to find the pirate nebula! And while toast is not proof, it is still good.

    Ramen.

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  12. 12 - Sean Boyd - Aug 24th, 2008

    Didn’t Bobby our prophet write in The Gospel that the FSM was probably orbiting a black hole somewhere? He was right! RAmen!

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  13. 13 - ニック - Aug 25th, 2008

    Suddenly everything makes sense!

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  14. 14 - jaymiester - Aug 28th, 2008

    nope

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  15. 15 - Blue Rogue Pierre - Aug 29th, 2008

    Mebbe He just made this thing, as a self-portrait, mateys.

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  16. 16 - Arrrrse - Sep 2nd, 2008

    Kinda told you about this one, nice crediting :)
    But really, all is done in his name.
    His presence is overwhelming,
    I will wrap my sadness in ‘noodly embrace’

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  17. 17 - newly converted - Sep 3rd, 2008

    I was unsure, but after seeing this AND it has the backing of actual science!! I no longer have to have faith with proof.

    RAmen maytes,

    RAmen

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  18. 18 - lucus - Apr 25th, 2009

    that’s my desktop wallpaper!
    Ramen.

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  19. 19 - ReparateMe - Jun 27th, 2009

    living proof of The Sacred

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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American




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