Scientists Uncover Cosmic Clue For ‘Big Bang,’ Suggest There Are Many Universes

The detection of a cosmic barcode in a supermassive black hole suggests that one of the four essential forces of nature is constant across the galaxy. The discovery made by Australian researchers is reportedly helping to build the picture of the Big Bang cosmology, just like an intricate piece of a jigsaw puzzle.

According to the research team from the Swinburne University of Technology and University of Cambridge, a distant quasar located beyond the Milky Way has electromagnetism readings that have the same strength as that found on our planet.

"Except for gravity, electromagnetism controls nearly everything around us, from every atom, to light, to how sound travels through the air, why we do not fall through the floor - the list goes on," Professor Michael Murphy from Swinburne was quoted by the Herald Sun. "So the constancy of electromagnetism's strength is a hugely fundamental assumption in our knowledge of everything. But it is an assumption, and one we must test, which is what we have done.

According to The Adviser, Murphy goes on to explain the phenomenon. The idea that the Big Bang and our universe are just one among many was also looked into and that in other universes the power of electromagnetism might be different, which perhaps makes life impossible there.

Incidentally, the four known fundamental forces of nature are electromagnetism, gravity and weak and strong nuclear forces. The professor also adds that the relationship of electromagnetism to the other three fundamental forces of nature is something beyond scientists' current understanding of physics at the moment.

Quasars are celestial objects that eclipse the galaxies that contain them due to their immense brightness, a result of being powered by black holes up to 1 billion times the mass of the Sun. The researchers found that the electromagnetism in the galaxy, where the quasar being studied is located, was within one part per million same as found here on Earth.

The scientists could make comparisons by observing the object's light traveling to Earth with the help of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope spectrograph and a 3.6 m telescope in Chile, in the course noticing that aspects of it were absorbed by the galaxy's gas 8 billion years ago and casting shadows at certain colors in the process.