For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. Proverbs:23:27, Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Matthew:15:14, And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Revelation:17:5
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The light of God is ever shining amid the darkness of heathenism. As these magi studied the starry heavens, and sought to fathom the mystery hidden in their bright paths, they beheld the glory of the Creator. Seeking clearer knowledge, they turned to the Hebrew Scriptures. In their own land were treasured prophetic writings that predicted the coming of a divine teacher. Balaam belonged to the magicians, though at one time a prophet of God; by the Holy Spirit he had foretold the prosperity of Israel and the appearing of the Messiah; and his prophecies had been handed down by tradition from century to century. But in the Old Testament the Saviour’s advent was more clearly revealed. The magi learned with joy that His coming was near, and that the whole world was to be filled with a knowledge of the glory of the Lord. DA 59.3
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An enormous supermassive black hole has been spotted bursting into action around 10 billion light years away.
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.Proverbs:4:18
The huge black hole spat out a gigantic flare of energy, which was named J221951-484240, or J221951, and is one of the most luminous objects rapidly changing brightness—known as transients—ever recorded.
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The finding was revealed by Samantha Oates, an astronomer at the University of Birmingham in England, at the U.K.’s annual National Astronomy Meeting on Tuesday. A paper describing the discovery is currently available on preprint server arXiv, and will soon be published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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The wise men had seen a mysterious light in the heavens upon that night when the glory of God flooded the hills of Bethlehem. As the light faded, a luminous star appeared, and lingered in the sky. It was not a fixed star nor a planet, and the phenomenon excited the keenest interest. That star was a distant company of shining angels, but of this the wise men were ignorant. Yet they were impressed that the star was of special import to them. They consulted priests and philosophers, and searched the scrolls of the ancient records. The prophecy of Balaam had declared, “There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel.” Numbers 24:17. Could this strange star have been sent as a harbinger of the Promised One? The magi had welcomed the light of heaven-sent truth; now it was shed upon them in brighter rays. Through dreams they were instructed to go in search of the newborn Prince. DA 60.1
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“Our understanding of the different things that supermassive black holes can do has greatly expanded in recent years, with discoveries of stars being torn apart and accreting black holes with hugely variable luminosities,” Matt Nicholl, a member of the astronomy team from Queen’s University Belfast and co-author of the paper, said in a statement. “J221951 is one of the most extreme examples yet of a black hole taking us by surprise.”
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The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude. The agencies of evil are combining their forces and consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones.—Testimonies for the Church 9:11 (1909). LDE 11.2
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The astronomers theorize that J221951 and its exceptional brightness may a result of a supermassive black hole rapidly feeding on the material in its vicinity, thanks to its location being consistent with where a nearby red galaxy’s supermassive black hole would be expected to be.
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
Micah:2:10
Supermassive black holes are enormous black holes, thought to be at the center of every galaxy: our own Milky Way orbits around a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A*. Usually, these supermassive black holes are quite quiet, as a result of not having much material to consume, but let out huge flares of activity when they do.
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The J221951 flare was also found to have “switched on” extremely quickly after a long period of tranquility, and has an ultraviolet spectrum that indicates a large amount of material has been pushed out by a huge energy release, making its awakening a dramatic one.
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Two theories for how the supermassive black hole began feeding so suddenly and viciously have been suggested by the astronomers. The first involves a tidal disruption event, which is when a star passes close by a supermassive black hole and is ripped apart, while the second suggests that the supermassive black hole switched from dormant to active, and the J221951 flare is a result of the sudden feeding on the gaseous accretion disc of material surrounding the black hole.
“Continued monitoring of J221951 to work out the total energy release might allow us to work out whether this is a tidal disruption of a star by a fast-spinning black hole, or a new kind of AGN [active galactic nucleus] switch on,” Nicholl said.
J221951 was first spotted in 2019 by Oates, who was using the Ultra-Violet and Optical Telescope at the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to look for a kilonova—a neutron star merging with another neutron star or a black hole. Oates and her team noticed that rather than appearing blue and fading to red as kilonovas do, J221951 appeared consistently blue and did not fade away, leading them to investigate it further.
The astronomers hope to study J221951 in greater detail to figure out its true cause, as well as to examine how it behaves in the future.
The tidal disruption event and active galactic nuclei scenarios,’
“In the future we will be able to obtain important clues that help distinguish between the tidal disruption event and active galactic nuclei scenarios,’ Oates said in the statement. “For instance, if J221951 is associated with an AGN turning on we may expect it to stop fading and to increase again in brightness, while if J221951 is a tidal disruption event we would expect it to continue to fade.
“capture its late-time behavior.”
“We will need to continue to monitor J221951 over the next few months to years to capture its late-time behavior.”
If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Job:31:25-29
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