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In the past decade, an asymmetry in the large-scale distribution of galaxy spin directions has been observed in data from all relevant digital sky surveys, all showing a higher number of galaxies rotating in the opposite direction relative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 Lior Shamir

Recent observations using several different telescopes and sky surveys showed patterns of asymmetry in the distribution of galaxies by their spin directions as observed from Earth. These studies were done with data imaged from the Northern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Lior Shamir

Several recent observations using large datasets of galaxies showed non-random distribution of the spin directions of spiral galaxies, even when the galaxies are too far from each other to have gravitational interaction. Here, a dataset of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Lior Shamir

Multiple observations made by several different telescopes have shown asymmetry between the number of spiral galaxies rotating in opposite directions in different parts of the sky. One of the immediate questions regarding the possible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 Lior Shamir

Recent independent observations using several different telescope systems an analysis methods have provided evidence of parity violation between the number of galaxies that spin in opposite directions. On the other hand, other studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-08 Lior Shamir

The distribution of spin direction of ~6.4*10^4 spiral galaxies with spectra was examined. The analysis shows a statistically significant cosmological-scale asymmetry between galaxies with opposite spin direction. The data also reveals that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-18 Lior Shamir

The unprecedented imaging power of JWST provides new abilities to observe the shapes of objects in the early Universe in a way that has not been possible before. Recently, JWST acquired a deep field image inside the same field imaged in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 Lior Shamir

Multiple previous studies using several different probes have shown considerable evidence for the existence of cosmological-scale anisotropy and a Hubble-scale axis. One of the probes that show such evidence is the distribution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Lior Shamir

The ability of digital sky surveys to collect and store very large amounts of data provides completely new ways to study the local universe. Perhaps one of the most provocative observations reported with such tools is the asymmetry between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Lior Shamir

The nature of galaxy spin is still not fully known. Iye et al (2021) applied a 3D analysis to a dataset of bright SDSS galaxies that was used in the past for photometric analysis. They showed that the distribution of spin directions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Lior Shamir

The distribution of spin directions of $\sim6.4\cdot10^4$ SDSS spiral galaxies with spectra was examined, and compared to the distribution of $\sim3.3\cdot10^4$ Pan-STARRS galaxies. The analysis shows a statistically significant asymmetry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Lior Shamir

The paper shows an analysis of the large-scale distribution of galaxy spin directions of 739,286 galaxies imaged by DES. The distribution of the spin directions of the galaxies exhibits a large-scale dipole axis. Comparison of the location…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-02 Lior Shamir

The ability to collect unprecedented amounts of astronomical data has enabled the studying scientific questions that were impractical to study in the pre-information era. This study uses large datasets collected by four different robotic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-02 Lior Shamir

The distribution of the spin directions of galaxies has been a question in the past decade, with numerous Earth-based and space-based experiments showing that the distribution is not necessarily random. These experiments were based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Lior Shamir

Previous observations have suggested non-random distribution of spin directions of galaxies at scales far larger than the size of a supercluster. Here I use $\sim1.7\cdot10^5$ spiral galaxies from SDSS and $3.3\cdot10^4$ spiral galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-17 Lior Shamir

Spin patterns of spiral galaxies can be broadly separated into galaxies with clockwise (Z-wise) patterns and galaxies with counterclockwise (S-wise) spin patterns. While the differences between these patterns are visually noticeable, they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-01 Lior Shamir

Recent puzzling observations such as the $H_o$ tension, large-scale anisotropies, and massive disk galaxies at high redshifts have been challenging the standard cosmological model. While one possible explanation is that the standard model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-08 Lior Shamir

Previous observations of a large number of galaxies show differences between the photometry of spiral galaxies with clockwise spin patterns and spiral galaxies with counterclockwise spin patterns. In this study the mean magnitude of a large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-16 Lior Shamir

Recent advancements have shown tensions between observations and our current understanding of the Universe. Such observations may include the $H_o$ tension and massive galaxies at high redshifts that are older than what traditional galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 Lior Shamir

A preference for spiral galaxies in one sector of the sky to be left-handed or right-handed spirals would indicate a parity violating asymmetry in the overall universe and a preferred axis. This study uses 15158 spiral galaxies with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Michael J. Longo
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