He adorned the heavens with the Impossible

 By His Spirit He adorned the heavens.... 

Job 26:13

"They found that stars throughout much of our galaxy from the inner regions all the way out to the very edges are all moving at roughly the same speed. 

Not just similar speeds, mind you, but are naturally impossibly consistent speeds. 

It's as if every runner in a race, regardless of their starting position on

the track, finished at exactly the same time. This observation known as the flat rotation curve represents fact number one in our collection of cosmic impossibilities.

The rotation curve is simply a graph showing how fast objects orbit at different distances from the galactic center. 

For our solar system, this curve would start high for Mercury and steadily decline as we move outward.

For the Milky Way, it starts high and then stays high, flat as a tabletop across hundreds of thousands of light years. 

Let me help you understand just how strange this is with a more familiar analogy. 

Imagine you're at an ice skating rink and there's a massive person standing at the center. Skaters holding onto ropes of different lengths

are being spun around this central figure. The skater with the shortest rope closest to the center will naturally spin the fastest. The skater with the longest rope farthest away will move more slowly because they have to cover more ground in their larger circle and they're receiving less of the central spinner's energy. But what astronomers found in the Milky Way is equivalent to discovering that all the skaters, regardless of their rope length, are moving at exactly the same speed. The outer skaters somehow have access to the same energy as the inner ones, despite being much farther from the source.

It's not just unexpected, it's physically impossible under the laws of motion we've spent centuries confirming and refining." 

SleepyPhysicist