A binary black hole found in the center of Markarian 231
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of
astronomers discovered that Markarian 231 is powered by two central black holes
furiously whirling about each other. Markarian 231 is the nearest galaxy to
Earth that hosts a quasar, located 581 million light-years away. The finding
suggests that quasars—the brilliant cores of active galaxies – may commonly
host two central supermassive black holes, which fall into orbit about one
another as a result of the merger between two galaxies. Like a pair of whirling
skaters, the black-hole duo generates tremendous amounts of energy that makes
the core of the host galaxy outshine the glow of its population of billions of
stars, which scientists then identify as quasars. Aug. 28 http://scitechdaily.com/hubble-reveals-that-markarian-231-is-powered-by-a-double-black-hole/
Astrologers
have discovered a remarkable correspondence between the cosmos and the human
psyche. It is well known that the first observation of the modern planets
(Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) coincided
with a period in history where the themes and characteristics associated with
the corresponding archetypal principle were evident in the prevailing Zeitgeist. The most significant example is
the discovery in 1781 of Uranus which we
now associate with revolutions, technological inventions and progressive change
coinciding with the American and French Revolutions and the beginning of the
Industrial Age.
With this
understanding, what might the latest discovery of Makarian 231 mean. The main
researcher is Youjun Lu of the National Astronomical Observatories of China, Beijing
and the findings have been released just two days before the Full Moon of
August 30. A chart for the Full Moon at Beijing has the luminaries aligned with
Jupiter-Neptune (expansive imagination) and in hard aspect to Uranus
(discoveries) on the MC. Here the Full Moon with Neptune is conjunct the stars
of Pegasus, a Flying Horse which symbolizes a mind freed from slavery to lesser
ideas so that Diana Rosenberg rightly links this area to “major technological
and scientific discoveries”.
The
celestial co-ordinates of Markarian 231 [1] indicate its ecliptic longitude to
be [9vi24] [2]. The Sabian symbol for this degree is:
Phase 160 (Virgo 10): Two heads
looking out and beyond the shadows.
Keynote: The growth of true
understanding, born out of transcendence of duality even while immersed in the
world of duality.
How
interesting that the Sabian symbol refers to two heads and the discovery is
about two central black holes furiously
whirling about each other in the Galaxy Makarian 231! Look at two other Sabian symbols in the chart
which also appear to emphasize the need
to reconcile conflicting opposites and look beyond the shadow that these
conflicts generate.
Jupiter (3vi58): Phase 154: Black and
White children play happily together
Keynote: The overcoming of social
prejudices. Freedom from all kinds of biases.
MC (13ar58): Phase 14: A Serpent coiling near a man and woman
Keynote: Alienated and immature minds
often refuse relationship. Here the serpent represents the need for acceptance
of relationship by the two polarized human beings.
In
conclusion we might add that the meaning of a cosmic event may be discovered and
consciously articulated by a few creative individuals but might
remain unconscious to the collective living at that time until it can be seen in
retrospect by future generations.
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