It was spewed from a black hole 28,000 light years from Earth and is
vaporizing everything in its
path, astronomers say!
By MIKE FOSTER
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious
mass they've dubbed a
"chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets,
asteroids, planets and
entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth!
Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10
million-mile- wide cosmic
dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us
at close to the speed of
light -- making its estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1,
2014.
"The good news is that this finding confirms several cutting- edge ideas
in theoretical physics,"
announced Dr. Albert Sherwinski, a Cambridge based astrophysicist with
close ties to NASA.
"The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is
imminent."
Experts believe the chaos cloud is composed of particles spawned near the
event horizon of a black
hole (a form of what's called Hawking Radiation) that have been distorted
by mangled information
spewed from the hole.
"A super-massive black hole lies about 28,000 light-years from Earth at
the center of our galaxy,"
explained Dr. Sherwinski.
"Last year the eminent physicist Stephen Hawking revised his theory of
black holes -- which
previously held that nothing could escape the hole's powerful
gravitational field. He demonstrated
that information about objects that have been sucked in can be emitted in
mangled form.
"It now appears that mangled information can distort matter.
"Just imagine our galaxy the Milky Way as a beautiful, handwritten letter.
"Now imagine pouring a glass of water on the paper and watching the words
dissolve as the stain
spreads. That's what the chaos cloud does to every star or planet it
encounters."
To avoid widespread panic, NASA has declined to make the alarming
discovery public. But Dr.
Sherwinski's contacts at the agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory leaked to
him striking images of
the newly discovered chaos cloud obliterating a large asteroid.
"It's like watching a helpless hog being dissolved in a vat of acid," one
NASA scientist told Dr.
Sherwinski.
Ordinarily, Hawkings Radiation is harmless.
"It's produced when an electron- positron pair are at the event horizon of
a black hole," Dr.
Sherwinski explained. "The intense curvature of space-time of the hole can
cause the positron to
fall in, while the electron escapes."
But when "infected" by mangled information from the black hole, the
particles become a chaos cloud,
which in turn mangles everything it touches.
"If it continues unchecked, the chaos cloud will eventually reduce our
galaxy to the state of
absolute chaos that existed before the birth of the universe," the
astrophysicist warned.
Some scientists say mankind's best hope would be to build a "space ark"
and hightail it to the
Andromeda Galaxy, 2.1 million light-years away.
"We wouldn't be able to save the entire human population, but perhaps the
best and the brightest,"
observed British rocket scientist Dr. David Hall, when asked about the
feasibility of such a
project.
But even if such a craft could be built in time, evacuating Earth might
prove fruitless if theories
about the origin of the chaos cloud are correct.
"A black hole at the center of Andromeda is about 15 times the size of the
one in our own galaxy,"
Dr. Sherwinski noted. "It might be like jumping out of the frying pan into
the fire."
Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a senior White House official
said the president's top
science advisors are taking the findings in stride.
"This is a lot like global warming, where the jury is still out on whether
it's real or not," said
the official.
"The existence of this so called chaos cloud is only a theory. Americans
shouldn't panic until all
the facts are in."
Published on: 09/12/2005
http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/science/61501
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