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Circumstances around the core are enhanced to reveal more, and a left-side right-side asymmetry in alignments of the rim is disclosed


A study
of elliptical
galaxy M104 reveals
the following information

    ABSTRACT    

An image which at first seems a major breakthrough can proove to be poorly resolved and not fully concidered. The truth rests in various ways of enhancing the image, revealing more of its ambient light (actual details in photons captured by the camera) and using the enhancements to see and recognize more details and fundamental dynamics in the original image

The following enhancements of the Sombrero galaxy (M104) is a case in point. Black and white enhancements shown below were made from the following image downloaded from
this astronomy site



See this image at full resolution (3 meg)


For
instance
a major formation
(next image) has been revealed
in the far right of the right side rim. This
odd formation seems a large vertical round shape with
a lip of bright matter jutting out. This may be where
the remains of a small irregular or a dwarf galaxy
has either entered, or more likely is exiting,
the disk of the sombrero







There
is obviously
a vertical frilly
ridge of chaotic matter
in chattering arms running
around the rear perimeter, such
frilly ridges made of chaos seen
in many other galaxies, such as
Sculptor NGC 253. In fact
Andromeda next seems
to have many
such frilly
ridges of
vertical
chattering
chaotic matter
running around the outer
(far) edge of the right side perimeter

Right side of Andromeda, showing pronounced chaotic frilly ridges and leaping high rills of curling haze





SOMBRERO CONTINUED

The
left side of
the Sombrero galaxy is
no less interesting

Note
a thin
vertical arc
in lighter grey rising
prominently over the left far end
of the inner core plane. The arc can be
seen in mono, but is not noticed until
seen rising in a prominent
curve in 3D







In
the above,
with the degree of
magnification, it is clear
in 3D that the dish in which sits
the inner core is very steep walled. In
other words a pronounced down-slew relative
to the surrounding outer rim is where the inner
core region is housed. It can only means that
different parts of this galaxy are rotating
on different vectors, each at
different rates of speed

HERE ARE THE TWO SIDES IN QUICK REVIEW









NEXT - THE CENTER

Regards
the central core
bole where a black hole
of stupendous size is conjectured
by astronomers the following is understood

Original (left) - and enhanced (right) to reveal more details





For
instance, it
is clear (seen in 3D)
that the core region itself is
asymmetric - the left side slopes down
under the left end of the 'core dominant'
in smooth terrain, whereas the right side
rises up off the end of the right end of
the 'core dominant' in choppy
irregular terrain

An
enhanced
reversed negative
view reveals these following
hidden details close-in surrounding
the core (which appears solid black due to
the reverse negative appearance)

Enhanced 'Reverse Negative', reveals more of the chaotic circumstances surrounding the center (seen here as a black oval) at the core



In the
reverse negative
view above, it seems that
the core region is most chaotic with
vertical upheavals common. This is in keeping
with close looks at other large galaxy cores where
the inner regions are not flat or quiescentally quiet
and serene. Definately here is not smooth lineal flows
of quietly whirlpooling matter in flat planes as
simple thin disks, or coherent like the
rings of Saturn, these inner
region (as
seen
above),
are fierce



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