Ning Xiao, who received the news, was not too surprised.

He's been thinking about spatial perturbations these days, and if his line of thought is mathematically true, then this is how the universe works.

This can't even be called self-confidence, but a metaphysical identification.

As for the calculations, it is normal to have a slight discrepancy.

Specifically, the difference of more than a dozen stars, or dozens of stars, means that the calculation accuracy of the derivation formula needs to be improved. At least it has been proved that the galactic heart does indeed have stars. It's theoretically a black hole, and it should be a massive black hole.

As for why stars were able to survive there, a more precise theory is needed.

Of course, it's too early to talk about conquering the universe.

At least with the current level of science and technology, it is still far behind.

It's just that there is a theoretical way to better modify the planetary environment, such as calculating the angle and distance, using an artificial large light bulb, so that the planet that can meet the conditions for life survival has the temperature that carbon-based life can adapt to, and even control the climate. And then by releasing species to improve the ecology.

This makes it much easier for humans to modify planets.

Even if the energy can be used to a greater extent, it can also adjust the gravity of the planet by affecting the angular velocity of the planet, so that it can be closer to the earth.

For example, the migration to Mars is a beautiful plan. But even if humans have mastered the technology of planetary migration, the average temperature on the surface of Mars is minus 63 degrees Celsius all year round, and the occasional sudden storms will make life on Earth extremely vulnerable.

Not to mention that the gravity of Mars is only 2/5 of that of Earth, and this low gravity level can also affect people. After a few generations, earthlings who have immigrated to Mars may experience various symptoms of maladaptation when they return to Earth.

If Ning Xiao's theory is gradually fleshed out, allowing human civilization to find a way to borrow those natural forces to double the gravity of Mars to 4/5 of the Earth, and at the same time use a super-large light bulb to increase the energy needed for life on the surface of Mars, and even adjust the composition of the atmosphere, then human beings will not need to build huge closed cities on Mars to make this planet work

This is the power of theory, and it is also its fascinating place, which allows people to see the infinite hope of the future.

Of course, countless people will go crazy about it.

……

In an apartment near the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, Lucius Rudy has received a message from the Chandra X-ray Space Telescope.

Of course, humanity cannot be compared to March's analytical abilities.

Even if there is a purposeful analysis of the content, finding evidence of the existence of a star from a myriad of data requires a myriad of complex comparisons.

Although a lot of the work is still done by computers, if it is not specifically to find relevant information, those key points are hidden in the massive data and will not show themselves at all.

Here is a common sense that subverts many people's cognition.

Infrared and X-rays are invisible light, in other words, this type of space telescope cannot directly take pictures of the universe that humans can see intuitively. It is by collecting various cosmic rays, making data, and then comparing them through research and comparison by scientists day and night, and finally restoring it to a map that can be understood by humans and releasing it through a computer.

In other words, many times the cosmic microwave background pictures that you see are computer-synthesized products.

Astronomical observations are not directly seen.

The distance of 26,000 light-years from the galactic center means that the deep space telescope is collecting signals of various frequencies that were emitted 26,000 years ago. These signals have traveled for such a long time, which naturally leads to various data deviations. So it's very difficult to locate celestial objects at such a distance.

Too much space dust can distort the signal.

So it's no exaggeration to say that it's a complicated job.

Now the job has been divided by Lucius Rudy.

Since everyone was interested in Ning Xiao's assertion, he happened to be a little more relaxed.

After all, this is not an easy task, and if he can really handle the data easily, he will not shirk it first when the editor of the scientific magazine takes the initiative to find him. As a scientist, it's never a bad thing to have a good relationship with the editors of the world's top journals.

Except for those whose personalities do have problems, no one will refuse a request that is too relaxed.

And Lucius Rudy enjoys the atmosphere.

The chat group is always open, and after the data is distributed, people can run through the data while chatting about topics that interest everyone, such as new discoveries in astronomy, or interesting things that happened in their respective labs, which can make people feel more relaxed.

After all, it's still the Christmas holiday, and the Ames Research Center is on holiday until New Year's Day, and it's really too boring to stay at home and be alone in the face of massive data. Being able to interject and play with like-minded people, while doing the right thing, can also prove more quickly how outrageous the idea of that mathematical genius in the East is.

Just thinking about it, it's going to be a memorable Christmas.

Maybe a few years later, when he retires some of his memoirs, he can focus on his mental journey these days.

Of course, this half-leisure, half-working state is unlikely to produce results quickly.

Halfway through, Lucius Rudy also went out for two meals, both of which were fast food, of course.

Some restaurants are closed for the Christmas holidays, but many fast-food chains are still open, such as Chef Chu, who is just near the apartment, even on Christmas Day.

From this point of view, Lucius Rudy admires the dedication of the Chinese people very much. Although he doesn't really like to eat Chinese food, because most of the staple food in Chinese restaurants is fried rice. If he had a choice, he would still prefer to go to McDonald's to solve his stomach problems. Unfortunately, McDonald's near the apartment is closed, and if you want to go to another one, you need to run two blocks more.

Lucius Rudy doesn't like to order takeout, but he doesn't waste his time so wantonly.

Cheerful working hours are concentrated during the day. In the evening, the group becomes deserted.

After all, not everyone is as lonely as Lucius Rudy. Most of the people in the group have families.

After 10 o'clock in the evening, the group chat was lively again, and after midnight, it became even more deserted. Only Lucius Rudy and the other three are still online, only four people are left, and two have not spoken for more than an hour, most likely asleep, but the computer is still hanging.

That's the norm.

After all, not everyone is as struggling as Lucius Rudy.

Sleep when you should sleep, and what you should do is do things, which is the life of a normal person.

However, Lucius Rudy was naturally energetic, and he had long been accustomed to going to bed at 1 a.m., waking up at 5:30 a.m., and taking a half-hour lunch break at noon. Occasionally, if you come across something you're interested in, you may stay up late.

Anyway, five hours of sleep a day was enough for him.

At one o'clock in the middle of the night, Lucius Rudy summed up the day's work, looked at the results of the data analysis on the silver heart, then shook his head, and planned to rest.

He was about to say hello to another night owl in the group, but found that the group chat lit up first.

"Anything else you haven't slept? Which of you analyzes the data around the right ascension of 18h59m29s and the declination of -30°27′17, it seems that there is indeed a spectrum emitted by a star, or is it a super-bright star? ”

Lucius Rudy was stunned and subconsciously replied: "What's the situation?" Rennie, it's the middle of the night, no kidding. I can't help but call people up. Then you will know what you will be scolded for. ”

"You're still there, hurry up, I also suspect that something went wrong, so it took two hours to verify. I'll send you the results of the specific analysis, so you can take a look. ”

Soon, a batch of documents arrived.

Lucius Rudy's initial sleepiness was gone, and he began to study the results of the opposite analysis, and called up the raw data from the computer to start the comparison.

During this time, I didn't forget to keep chatting in the group chat: "Why did your calculations come out so quickly?" ”

"We have a project in cooperation with the Nichishima International Observatory, and we can use fugaku from the Computer Science Center of the Nichijima Institute of Science and Technology for free, so I will simply hang up the data you gait."

Lucius Rudy was shocked.

Good guys, really good guys.

Why didn't he think of using supercomputing to process this data?

Of course, he can't be blamed for that.

After all, he just doesn't have free computing resources at hand to use, and you must know that computing power is very expensive anywhere.

He didn't even think about paying for supercomputing time in order to verify the data.

"Wait, I'll find you some data that has been scanned before, and then you can hang it on fugaku to make a comparison."

"No problem, anyway, it's the computing power of the people of Hishima, they won't care about this. You send it. ”

“ok！”

Soon, Lucius Rudy began to search in his own system, finding a batch of relevant data from the countless data in his inventory and sending it over.

Free computing power is always a great thing to do. And the data is not suspected of being leaked. But all the data he can find on his work computer at home is semi-public public data on the platform, and the degree of confidentiality is not so high.

In fact, few people are interested in this complex data, most of which are meaningless and need to be panned for gold to pick out the useful things. If you want to analyze all the contents of the database, even if the world's supercomputers don't do anything else, it will take decades to process the relevant data.

And that's not even counting the steady stream of new data being obtained.

In fact, the verification can be so easy this time, mainly because Ning Xiao's paper has even marked the possible left range. While those coordinates may be less precise in the universe and errors can be several light-years, they are tolerable compared to a distance of 26,000 light-years.

So, borrowing from Fugaku, which can be said to be one of the fastest supercomputers in the world at the moment, his peers quickly came up with results.

This time, the data he is looking for is more targeted, the search scope is further smaller, the amount of data is not very large, and the results should be available faster.

"Renny, the data has been sent to you."

"Roger, wait, by the way, the result of the calculation just now is no problem, right?"

"I'm still working on it, and it doesn't seem to be a problem now."

"Do you want to call them? I think if I don't inform them, maybe tomorrow they won't be happy. ”

"Wait, wait until I'm sure, by the way, where are you now?"

"Hawaii."

"What time is it there?"

"At 6:15 in the morning, I slept and got up at 5 o'clock to go to the toilet to continue sleeping. Tomorrow I definitely won't be able to go and enjoy the warm sun at the beach. ”

"Are you still worried about the warm sun on the beach? Isn't the scorching light from the silver heart sun enough to ignite your passion? ”

"If that essay was my work, my passion has exploded by now. Even if it was you, I would be happy for you, but that paper was written by another person. The impetus for me to verify the results came from what you said, and we may be the first people who can prove that he is wrong. But what we're doing now is proving that he's right again.

To be honest, I'm feeling more complicated now than I was when I first went to my girlfriend's house to meet her traditional and conservative daddy. ”

Lucius Rudy didn't know what to say.

The excitement brought by the news that he had just received was hit by these words, and he seemed to have forgotten his original intention at this time.

"But this discovery could change our understanding of the Milky Way, and even the universe."

"That's the only reason I'm willing to give up the nice beach and sit in front of my computer. Damn, how can stars appear there? The central region of the galactic radio source is less than 10 astronomical units, but there are millions of solar masses there, which is a supergiant black hole, why can't the star be swallowed? ”

"I don't know, maybe we should have analyzed more data before...... Or you can ask Huaxia that Ning ...... Okay, I think it's time to call them, and after comparing it with the raw data, I think your analysis is correct, there are stars there. If his reasoning is correct, then there should be stars in other regions, but our analysis speed can't match yours. ”

"Okay, I see what you mean, I'll ask everyone to put the data together for me. You're in charge of making calls, and I'm in charge of continuing to work. ”

"Good!"

……

When Lucius Rudy made dozens of phone calls, the astronomer's chat group was lively again.

The data analyzed through the supercomputer is sent to everyone on the line.

After a period of silence, the group soon became lively again.

"So he's right? He turned out to be right? Through several formulas that he didn't know what the meaning was, he deduced the possibility that the galactic heart had a stellar motion? And the results have been proven by us? ”

"God, God must be crazy. I'm curious now about how those stars formed? It is a well-known fact that any matter, including stars, disappears without a trace once it falls into the gravitational field of a black hole. ”

"So is it possible that the disk-like gaseous material generated by the core disturbance activity at some distance around the black hole could evolve into stars?"

"But that would require the generation of a high-temperature, high-pressure core, and if the data comparison is correct, the stars there are huge and extremely bright."

"Well, the structure of the universe is more complex. I knew that everything was so simple, that the mass there was 6.84 x10 to the power of 36, which is 3.6 million times the mass of the sun. ”

"Tomorrow the whole world will go crazy about this discovery."

"Haha, Lucius, you're wrong, few people will pay attention to this. Of course, many people in the physics community will not know why. ”

"Wait, speaking of which, do you think Ning's discovery is likely to win next year's Nobel Prize?"

A simple question suddenly silenced the group chat that had just been infinitely lively again.

After a while, someone replied, "Probably not, right?" After all, the Nobel Prize was awarded to those who study gravitational waves just last year, and they can't be given to those who are engaged in cosmology next year, and those who do quantum physics will go crazy. And Ning Xiao is not a physicist, is he? ”

"But through Ning Xiao's paper, we discovered that there is a dense stellar object in the galactic center, which subverts at least one-third of our perception of the galactic center and related theories. To be honest, this is indeed a Nobel Prize-level achievement. If he can complete the theory next year, it will not be a big problem to win the Nobel Prize again. ”

"He's only 22 years old, and he's already won the Fields Medal in mathematics and the Turing Award, so he still wants to refresh the Nobel Prize record?"

"Well, so what's the solution?"

"I still think it's time for quantum mechanics next year."

"Hehe......"

"Okay, the verification is complete, everyone, the results have been sent to you in the mailbox, facts speak louder than words, no matter how difficult you find it to accept, the Huaxia people are right. Of course, it may be a little mistake, because there are far more stars there than he deduced in his paper. Lucius, you're an expert in black holes, and I have a hunch that your hair will fall out very quickly for a long time to come. ”

"No, maybe we can work with Ning Xiao, I'm suddenly very interested in his paper. If we can, maybe we should ask him to fill in the missing parts of the paper as soon as possible. ”

"Lucius, you should be able to do it, maybe you can get the editor of a scientific journal to contact Ning Xiao."

"Maybe, but I'm not sure. I've heard he doesn't like to deal with people very much, but I'll try, you guys, wait. ”

……

"Bell Bell Bell ......"

When Arel Reilly was woken up by the ringing of the phone, he subconsciously looked out the window.

It's still dark......

Damn, that's so rude, don't you know it's the Christmas holidays?

It's too much to disturb people's dreams at this time.

"Who?" The woman next to her asked.

"I'll take a look at ......" After speaking, Arel Reilly rolled over and got up, glanced at the caller number, and then the whole person was stunned, and then quickly woke up, then put on his pajamas, and replied casually: "A scientist friend." He walked out of the bedroom.

He really didn't expect the call to be Lucius Rudy, and looked at the time, it was 5:37 in the morning.

The scientist's phone is really not easy to hang up directly, after all, he just looked for someone not long ago.

And when I called at this time, I always gave him a very weird feeling.

Don't......

Exiting the bedroom, he answered the phone and quickly verified his suspicions.

"Although it is difficult to speak, I still have to take back what I said before, Ning Xiao is right. It has been verified that the region indicated by his paper does indeed have stars, and there are dozens of stars, which, judging by the available data, may be 30 to 50 times larger than our sun, and may be 100 times brighter than the sun, and they rotate so fast that they are probably afraid of being eaten by black holes.

To paraphrase my brother who was doing this with me, the universe is a miracle, and everything we think we know may be wrong. I'll have to admit he's right, but you should know that his thesis isn't that clear, so can you put me in touch with him? We hope to have some academic discussions with Ning Xiao. ”

Arel Reilly could hear the urgency in Lucius Rudy's tone.

But he can't help this request.

After all, he is not familiar with Ning Xiao, including the email sent by the magazine to Ning Xiao that the manuscript has been published, and Ning Xiao has not replied yet.

"Okay, I'll communicate your request to Ning Xiao, but are you sure you've found evidence of a star in that area? Of course, I'm not questioning your judgment, but you've said earlier that it might take some time to find evidence. ”

"Yes, it did take a while, but there were too many coincidences. My application was approved early, and it happened that a friend had supercomputing resources on hand. Of course, it will take a while to write these findings into a paper, we have to sort out and re-verify the information, and we need to synthesize some pictures on the computer, well, about a week, and when you have a good Christmas holiday, you may be able to see this article in your mailbox. ”

"That's great, trust me Lucius, I'll find a way to discuss your idea with Ning Xiao. This is another major astronomical discovery of the 21st century, right? ”

"Undoubtedly, yes! By the way, I retract the previous sentence again, mathematics is indeed omnipotent. ”

"Don't say that......"

"Okay, remember your promise, I very much hope to communicate with Ning as soon as possible, by email, phone, video, etc., you can tell him, I can arrange according to his time."

"Okay!"

"Then please, hang up."

Listening to the busy sound, Arel Reilly knew that this Christmas, another field of science would not be quiet.

……

Huaxia, Yanbei University, Fan Zhenhua was consulting literature in the office of the Mathematical Research Center, the office door was suddenly knocked, and before he could answer, someone pushed the door directly and walked in.

"Academician Chen? Which gust of wind brought you here? ”

Fan Zhenhua looked at the person unexpectedly, this is Chen Wenze, head of the Department of Astronomy of Yanbei University.

"What other gusts of wind? Of course Ning Feng blew me over, are you busy? If you're not busy, take me to the University of Sports to help introduce me, I want to meet Ning Xiao. ”

"It's not...... What are you going to do to see Ning Xiao? Has he sinned against you again? Fan Zhenhua felt nervous for a while.

After all, Ning Xiao has a history of offending people, he can always do some messy things, and he offends people inexplicably, making people's heads big.

And at this time, Fan Zhenhua really didn't want Ning Xiao to offend these elders again, after all, his plan was to push Ning Xiao up next year.

However, Chen Wenze's answer caught him a little off guard.

"You don't know about the paper he published in Science?"

"He's posting another paper in Science? When? Fan Zhenhua was also stunned.

He really didn't know about it.

"The day before yesterday, the official website of science was updated, and he was given a special Christmas edition layout. To put it simply, he made some predictions through mathematics, subversive predictions, and I got the news that some of his peers have confirmed that his predictions were correct. I studied his paper again, and there were some things I didn't understand very well, and I wanted to ask him in person.

By the way, it's not just me, two professors from the school's Astrophysics Research Center are on their way over, and they entrusted me to come to you first, and then make an appointment to go to the University together. ”

Fan Zhenhua blinked his eyes, a little puzzled......

Day before yesterday?

Didn't Tian Ningxiao just finish defending his doctoral dissertation?

He went to science and published a paper again? Or is it about astrophysics?

"That, Academician Chen, are you mistaken? Haven't you heard of Ning Xiao astronomy and research? ”

"Didn't I say that? His thesis is a prediction made by mathematical deduction, so it makes people feel very strange, oops, don't talk nonsense, let's go, I'm explaining to you on the way, okay? ”

"Yes, I'll accompany you there, but there's no guarantee that he'll give me face as an old man."

"Okay, I don't believe that young man really didn't recognize his six relatives, left, left."

In this way, Fan Zhenhua was directly pulled out of the door.

……

Almost at the same time, Chen Lili's phone, who was writing his paper in the office, also rang.

This happened to be a call from Li Zhongshu, director of the astronomy department of Huaqing University.

The predecessor of the Department of Astronomy of Huaqing University was the astrophysics major of the School of Physics, and after Yanbei University split the Department of Astronomy, Huaqing also did the same and hired an academician of the Academy of Sciences as the head of the department.

For Chen Ideal, an associate professor, it was inevitable that he would be more surprised than Fan Zhenhua when he received the call.

After all, he has almost no intersection with this Academician Li, after all, everyone has different levels of meetings.

"Professor Chen, I'm Li Zhongshu."

"Oh, Academician Li, hello, hello."

"Hey, well, didn't bother you, did you?"

"No, no, what's the matter with you?"

"That's good, I really want to ask you for help, you know, Ning Xiao and Hua Qing don't have a good relationship, so I want to ask you to help, see if I can invite Ning Xiao to our astronomy department to give a lecture and talk about his latest paper." We don't care about the grievances in the school, we just want to invite him to do a related seminar, what do you think? ”

"Huh?"