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    The sky is full of weird X-shaped galaxies. Here's why.

    Interesting idea. However, as I understand it, precession occurs when poles describe a circle on the surface of a sphere containing the field. As a black hole by definition has no surface. the precession needs to happen at a the event horizon level, with a strong, ordered magnetic field doing...
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    The sky is full of weird X-shaped galaxies. Here's why.

    Again, none of these things can even remotely explain a galactic scale hourglass shaped emission. Neither you, nor @Nick Wilmhurst have demonstrated anything close to what you claim can explain the observation. Like most charlatans, you both jump in and claim your pet "theory" can explain...
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    The sky is full of weird X-shaped galaxies. Here's why.

    Ok, I am probably stupid, but I can't find the answer on how plasma processes create an hourglass shape at galactic scales in that rambling mess of misinformation you linked to. Could you be more specific, please?
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    Hoag's Object Is a Galaxy Within a Galaxy Within a Galaxy (and Nobody Knows Why)

    Hi Joe, I apologize for my earlier snarky comment. I mistook you for an anti-science, Dunning-Kruger troll, because lately, most science forums are full of them. Having looked at your Youtube video today, you, Sir, are definitely not one of them. You come across very sincere and methodical...
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    Hoag's Object Is a Galaxy Within a Galaxy Within a Galaxy (and Nobody Knows Why)

    Would you like some dressing on that word salad?
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    The coronavirus did not escape from a lab. Here's how we know.

    Please provide references to the research that you cite, and the interviews. People taking hearsay without verifying, then quoting and amplifying is how fake news and conspiracy theories spread. China definitely screwed up the response and hid their cases and deaths through "creative" cause of...
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    The sky is full of weird X-shaped galaxies. Here's why.

    Please explain the plasma processes that can create an hourglass shape at galactic scales. Things you can demonstrate at centimeter scales don't do well when you extrapolate them to galactic scales. You probably know that electromagnetic field falls off as 1/r^3, right?
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    The sky is full of weird X-shaped galaxies. Here's why.

    @stephen J Bauer: "So not only are some scientists providing analogies that black holes eat, but now some other scientists would like us to believe that some black holes even burp, or belch out matter." The words "belching" and "indigestion" are incredibly stupid ones to use in this situation...
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    Egyptian mummy cold case closed: 'Takabuti' was stabbed to death

    Researchers who analyze DNA samples presumably know what they do for a living, so let's give them the benefit of doubt before making snarky comments. Making sure that the sample site is uncontaminated is the first rule of DNA analysis in forensics, and I am sure the researchers applied it here...
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    19 Galaxies Are Apparently Missing Dark Matter. No One Knows Why.

    I fully agree. The problem is that people are so focused on "finding dark matter" rather than looking at whether the current theory of gravity requires modifications. Sadly, the only focus on a modified theory of gravity comes from "YouTube physicists" who have never published a paper and/or...
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    Hoag's Object Is a Galaxy Within a Galaxy Within a Galaxy (and Nobody Knows Why)

    Well, if some guy on YouTube says so, it really must be true. /s Gravity as a wave function idea is not really new. However, it is loosely defined, and applied to every thing that lacks enough observations to explain (case in point - Oumuamua acceleration), which lends it a certain "snake oil"...