14 ms·
If you look up a galaxy eating another galaxy, they're a lot more comparable to a Lorenz Attractor. There are a quite a few differences between them and black h
by ksaj 3y ago
If you look up a galaxy eating another galaxy, they're a lot more comparable to a Lorenz Attractor. There are a quite a few differences between them and black holes, even visually.
https://mashable.com/article/nasa-esa-hubble-galaxy-stretching https://mashable.com/article/nasa-esa-hubble-galaxy-stretchi...
Scroll some of these images: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1185556/milky-way-galaxy-andromeda-universe-space-news-stars-earth-cannibal-galaxy https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1185556/milky-way-gal...
A visually clear point is that the inner part of one feeds the outer part of the other (and vice versa) in a Lorenz Attractor, and it is a continuous cycle.
Black holes don't do that at all. The surrounding light gets bent around them in a straight-forward way. There is no cycle or periodicity.
Colliding galaxies get about half way to a Lorenz Attractor, being without the "vice versa" part - one is inevitably eating the other, so it isn't fully cyclical. But visually the connection is notable.