It seems that we’re finally locating at least some of the Universe’s ‘missing’ black holes.
A cluster of stars called IRS 13 near the center of the galaxy seems to harbor a black hole in its midst. Moreover, the way these stars swarm and orbit suggests that the black hole is a rarity – one in the middleweight mass range, between those that have a star-like mass and the supermassive monsters.
Wherever the JWST looks in space, matter and energy are interacting in spectacular displays. The Webb reveals more detail in these interactions than any other telescope because it can see through dense gas and dust that cloak many objects.
In a new image, the JWST spots a young protostar only 100,000 years old.
The star is named L1527, and at this young age, it’s still ensconced in the molecular cloud that spawned it. This is one of the reasons NASA built the JWST (with help from the ESA and the CSA.) The telescope can see through dust and gas to reveal the earliest stages of star formation.
By Rafael Montoro
The American carried out several expeditions in the Peruvian jungle and the Andes, obtaining good results. Among his most notable discoveries are Vilcabamba, the last Inca refuge from the Spanish invasion, and Gran Pajatén.
In the vast lands of Peru, a man whose figure evoked that of ancient heroes, launched himself into adventure with immeasurable determination. His name remained in the shadows for a time, but his exploits expanded with the strength of someone who challenges the unexplored. From 1957 to 1984, this explorer crossed mountains, jungles and rivers with an almost supernatural energy, as if nature itself had chosen him to reveal its best kept secrets.
With his imposing appearance and a fame that extended beyond the borders, this adventurer could well have been the personification of ‘Indiana Jones’, the iconic character of Hollywood cinematography. Like the famous archaeologist, he combined an insatiable curiosity with indescribable courage, facing the dangers of Peru with audacity. His figure rose like a fictional hero made real.
Douglas Eugene Savoy (1927-2007) is the name of the explorer described in the previous paragraphs. The man who first saw the light in Bellingham, Washington, was never destined for an ordinary existence. From the vastness of the north, something greater than himself led him to distant lands, where adventure awaited him with open arms, as if his essence was predestined to conquer the unknown.
His restless spirit led him to transcend the borders of his native country, becoming an explorer of legendary proportions, a man who, far from being contained by the known world, set out to discover the hidden mysteries in the vast lands of Peru and beyond.
Eugene Savoy began his academic training at the Jesuit University of Portland, initially attracted by a religious vocation. However, his passion for ancient cultures and indigenous peoples soon led him to abandon these studies to devote himself to folklore, archaeology, mythology, religion and the ethnography of American civilizations.
In 1957, the American received an invitation to join an archaeological dig in Peru , but the project did not materialize. Despite this, his visit to the Andean country became a turning point. He decided to settle in Peru and embark on an exploration mission that would last until 1984. During this extensive period, he discovered more than 40 lost cities of various pre-Columbian cultures . His work offered Peruvians a new understanding of their historical heritage.
In 1965, upon arriving at Gran Pajatén, Savoy discovered sculptures depicting condors and figures adorned with halos. (El País)In the 1960s, Douglas Eugene Savoy carried out several expeditions in the Peruvian jungle, the Andes and the Amazon, obtaining good results. Among his most notable discoveries were Vilcabamba , the last Inca refuge from the Spanish invasion, and Gran Pajatén . For the explorer, these sites were tangible proof of his theory on the origin of Andean cultures.
In his view, the roots of these civilizations were not in the Andean valleys, but in the jungle regions. With these discoveries, he challenged traditional conceptions about the origin of Andean cultures
The adventurer shared his experiences about the places he explored in a conversation with Discovery Networks , whose channel broadcast his statements through a documentary. “I explored all of Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, (as well as) all the tributaries of the Amazon (…) I found nothing. Honestly, if there were ruins there, I would have found them. They are not there, they are in Peru ,” he said.
For decades, Savoy devoted himself to exploring the most remote regions of Peru. His search for pre-Columbian ruins took him through the vast Peruvian jungle and valleys, discovering ancient cities and villages that had remained hidden. His tireless and meticulous work allowed him to document more than 40 collections of ruins, which are located throughout the country.
Regarding his findings, the explorer said the following: “We found about 40 sites located in 40 different places. (They were) linked by stone paths and each one included between 400 and 500 buildings,” he said in the documentary by the international media.
In 1965, upon arriving at Gran Pajatén, Savoy discovered sculptures depicting condors and figures adorned with halos. Throughout his life full of adventures and explorations, he followed his dreams with determination and managed to obtain these remarkable discoveries.
Historian Santiago Tácunan Bonifacio, in his article “An explorer passionate about Peru,” pointed out the other places that the American discovered. “His history is little known among Peruvians, despite being the discoverer of important archaeological remains such as Vilcabamba (the last refuge of the Incas, in Cusco), the Gran Pajatén (an ancient pre-Incan stone city in the San Martín region), the Gran Vilaya (an intricate stone structure that covers more than 250 square kilometers of dense jungle, in Chachapoyas), among other architectural evidence located in eastern Peru,” he said.
Ultimately, the explorer was not only dedicated to adventure , but also to an intense work of dissemination. Over the years, he produced a wide range of books, articles and essays that shared his discoveries and knowledge with the world. In addition, he contributed to television documentaries that brought his findings and his passion for ancient cultures to a global audience.
“And David in the Psalms,’ I believe I see the goodness of the lord in the land of the living.’ He also says, ‘Let your good spirit lead me on a level path.’
Solomon declares, ‘But the just will inherit the earth and live on it forever.’
Christ has ordered ‘not to swear by any part of the sky because it is the throne of god.’
When he says ‘throne’ he is surely thinking of David in Psalms when he says, ‘O god, your throne exists eternally,’
and again Matthew,’ not on earth, for earth is god’s footstool.’
It is our lord himself who adds, in Hebrews,’ because it is his footstool.’
David continues the footstool allusion in Psalms: Fear the lord, our god, and worship the footstool at his feet, for he is holy.
About creation, I wish to confess that our lord god is the creator and author, but not of the elements of the world, which are impotent and empty, and as Paul said in Galatian, ‘How can you now turn back to the impotent and empty elements under which you suffer a new slavery?’
The messenger also says in Colossians,’ If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations: ‘Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch’? All these regulations refer to things that perish with use.’
Even less can we admit that our lord is the creator and author of death, and of the things that are, by their essence, in death, because, as it is written in the book of Wisdom, ‘God has not made death, and he does not rejoice at the loss of the living.’
There exists, then, with no doubt whatsoever, another creature or factor, who is the principle and cause of death, of perdition, and of all evil, as we have explained above with sufficient clarity.”
–The Book of the Two Principles
The land of the living is the spiritual realm, not the physical realm. In the physical world, everything dies. Some things live long physical lives, others short ones, but all are mortal, all will end, and therefore, in a spiritual sense, it is not living at all since it is temporary. The second sentence in the quote, however, says: “ the just will inherit the earth and live on it forever.” That seems to contradict the idea that the physical world is temporary, but it doesn’t. What Solomon is talking about is a time in the future when the Earth becomes a spiritual world again, and therefore, immortal. In fact, the entire universe of matter will be changed by God back into its original state of Spirit, and that process is already happening. A lot of what is called “global warming” is actually this process of change happening.
The quote cites two different sources for saying that the Earth is the footstool of God. This means it is beneath God, at least in its present state, yet it is important to God as the footstool of a thrown is still a part of the throne.
Here is where we get to the most important point of the quote. God is the author (creator) of REALITY which is the realm of Spirit, but not the creator of the elements, or the realm of matter. The realm of Matter was created by the fallen angels, or as they are collectively called in most Gnostic literature, the Demiurge.
Here, we in Cosolargy differ with the directions of the quote. We should not ignore the regulations of the physical world, as recommended by Paul, the false preacher who was not, as he claims, Chosen by Jesus. While it is true that we shouldn’t let the Laws of Man prevent us from our spiritual development, we should still obey the laws whenever possible, and work to change the unjust laws. We do not want to invite the wrath of the world upon us individually as a group, which is what happens when we stop obeying the law. Even the Essenes, who opposed animal sacrifice, sent grain and honey as their required sacrifice to the Jewish temple.
This goes along with the idea that the real God did not create the realm of Matter. As the creator only of Spirit, God did not create death, disease, rot, decay, or any of the other ills of the material world. He did not create poverty. The greedy who take far more than their proper share of things do that. So as the quote summarizes at the end, God is not the author of any evil. Evil is from the Demiurge.
The Sun is extremely active right now, blasting the Earth with the biggest solar storms in 20 years. This is what it is doing to the rest of the Solar System.
If you happened to look skywards on a few nights in May 2024, there was a good chance of seeing something spectacular. For those at relatively low latitudes, there was a rare chance to see the flickering red, pink, green glow of our planet’s aurorae.
A powerful solar storm had sent bursts of charged particles barrelling towards Earth and, as they bounced around in our planet’s atmosphere, they unleashed spectacular displays of the Northern and Southern Lights.
Link contributed by Gene Savoy, Jr.
The Milky Way is not alone in its little corner of the Universe.
Tiny, faint dwarf galaxies, many with as few as a thousand stars, swoop around our cosmic neighborhood on long graceful circuits. It’s unclear exactly how many there are, but there should be a lot more than the 60 or so we’ve found to date.
Astronomers have recently identified two more of these itty-bitty companions, but the news isn’t as problem-solving as you might think. Now, there appear to be too many.
A black hole discovered lurking in the Cosmic Dawn is just way too big to easily explain. Sitting at the center of a galaxy called J1120+0641, it tips the scales at well over a billion Suns’ worth of mass.
Bigger black holes exist all around us today. The problem is the when of J1120+0641’s existence. At less than 770 million years after the Big Bang, it’s hard to figure out how the black hole had the time to gain that much mass.
“Deep companion of the beings of light! In your mercy, give me your strength and help me with your own hand. Dress my soul, O lord, and speak to me. Help me when enemies close in. Their deceitful body would ravage and torture me. Beneficent friend, free me. My soul is crying in my body at every blow and dagger stab. My hour of life and this form in flesh is over, and all its days of turbulence. My hour tumbled about as on troubled water, pain after pain ravaging my inner place. I walked in anguish, fire at my ankles, fog a smoke in my face. Springs of darkness opened, and the giant fishes transfixed me with fear. My soul fainted before those dreadful forms, hideous to look at. Their bodies lack a human shape. These are the demons, the banished princes, transfixing me with terror. Their fury assembled like sea bodies of fire. They rose to drown me. In every neighborhood there were storm winds. Rain, the mist of all fogs, lightning and drums of thunder, shores of clouds, hail, crashing sea. The skiff rose over the crest of a wave and glided into a hidden trough. All the clamps got loose, iron rivets fell out. With the drownings the sails swallowed water, and the masts shook together in the turmoil. The rudders dropped into the sea. Those left on board turned to stone. The helmsmen and his pilots wailed bitterly at the top of their lungs.”
-Parthian Songs
The companion of the Beings of Light is God. Why the writer of this song chose to say it that way, I don’t know, but God is, of course, a companion of the Beings of Light that dwell in Heaven. The song asks God to speak to the one singing and to help when enemies close in. Enemies do not mean other people, but the beings and forces of Darkness: Devils and Demons.
This line that ends with the singer being hit and stabbed makes us think that it is a martyr doing the singing, although it is possible that the line is allegorical. The next line makes it clear that this person is dying, and probably not of natural causes. The person properly indicates that it is just his body of flesh that is dying.
This part is definitely allegorical. Now this person is relating his dying state racked with pain as being on troubled waters. The allegory continues when he adds that “springs of darkness opened and “giant fishes transfixed me with fear.” The giant fishes represent demonic beings in frightful forms. He makes this clear a few lines later saying that: “These are the demons, the banished princes, transfixing me with terror.” That is, of course, one thing demons do. Sometimes they take forms that are frightening to us. Other times, they take forms that we like so we will listen to their lies.
The song now seems to take a turn from describing what is happening to one dying person to the more general attacks on people by demons. The writer does stick with his allegory of being on Troubled Water, but now he talks of a ship with a number of sailors on board. First, he says there were storms and wind, lightning and thunder, hail and crashing waves. The demonic “storm” tears the ship apart drowning, or turning to stone, all of those aboard. This allegory is tricky to decipher, but here is my opinion. I think the ship and the sailors on it represent one of the many false churches that teach their members they are saved simply by belonging to the church and donating to it. In the End Times, represented here by a great storm, the demons destroy the false church, or at least the false teachings. We in Cosolargy know that all falsehood must be cleansed from the world as part of the process of returning it to its original state as a World of Light.
A stunning new wonderland has been discovered, hidden deep beneath the ocean waves of the Arctic Circle.
Off the coast of Svalbard, in Norway, more than 3,000 meters (9,842 feet) down, a field of hydrothermal vents unfolds along the Knipovich Ridge, an underwater mountain range previously thought to be fairly unremarkable.
Instead, like underfloor heating, volcanic activity below the seafloor causes heat to seep through, creating havens of warmth and chemical reactions where life can gather and thrive.
Saturn has its famous hexagon, and Jupiter has just now been caught throwing mad shapes too.
High up in its atmosphere, astronomers have identified strange, glowing new features, in the region above the tempestuous Great Red Spot.
There, in the ionosphere, concentrations of ionized hydrogen cause a near-infrared glow in arcs, bands, and spots that suggest the wild planet is far wilder than we even suspected.