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Solar particles at the centre of the galaxy.

sherr1ngton · 2013-09-11 19:17:45

The sun loses about six million tons per second of its mass as solar particles which comprise the solar wind. That wind blows away from the sun in all directions and give rise to the heliosphere. Solar particles that reach the boundary of the heliosphere interact with the interstellar medium. Thusly, the solar system is…

11-09-2013 7:17pm

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The sun loses about six million tons per second of its mass as solar particles which comprise the solar wind.

That wind blows away from the sun in all directions and give rise to the heliosphere. Solar particles that reach the boundary of the heliosphere interact with the interstellar medium. Thusly, the solar system is buffered from the high energy particles that are bouncing around the galaxy.

All stars create a heliopause and all stars have a proportion of their solar wind blowing towards the centre of the galaxy on convergent paths. And a lot of the particles in the solar wind are proton and electrons, the building blocks of hydrogen.

Apparently, the central parsec of the galaxy is occupied by thousands of stars that are known about and other clouds of debris.

To put that in perspective, if the earth was at the centre of a two parsec region of space then the sun would be the only star that occupied that region.

This means the the centre of the galaxy is surrounded by thousands of stars that are within a couple of light years.

The heliospheres of the stars in this region would overlap and over time would carve away a region of the hydrogen wall, creating a hole into which thousands of stars are blowing protons and electrons. Also, solar particles that are not on convergent paths but are on paths that put them between the stars and the centre of the galaxy are forced into orbits that take them towards the centre through the interactions of adjacent heliopauses.

There are millions of stars in the few parsecs that surround the galactic centre, all of which are constantly contributing to the mass that is accumulating there.

So, we have all these high energy particles interacting with each other - wouldn't hydrogen be produced?

And over billions of years with contributions from billions of stars wouldn't a vast amount of hydrogen be produced?

Perhaps the stars close to the centre act like sheepdogs, coralling the hydrogen with their solar winds and as the cloud gets denser and more and more hydrogen is produced, the hydogen wall rebuilds, pushing back at the helioshperes, seperating them at the centre. Energy keeps pouring in and the hydrogen cloud grows and at a critical point, rapid star formation occurs, the cloud is blown away and the process of accumulation begins again.

My thinking is that this would explain why there are young stars as well as old ones in the viscinity of the centre of the galaxy.

It would also account for the retrograde orbits of some of the stars around the galactic centre.

A supermassive black hole is made problematic by the existence of these stars so I'm wondering if there is a way to do away with the black hole idea and instead think of the galactic centre as a solar particle recycling plant creating new hydrogen to refuel the galaxy.

Any thoughts?

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