An Oppositeness in the Cosmology: Distribution of the Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Cosmological Principle

Abstract

The Cosmological Principle is the assumption that the universe is spatially homogeneous and isotropic in the large-scale average. In year 1998 the author, together with his two colleagues, has shown that the BATSE's short gamma-ray bursts are not distributed isotropically on the sky. This claim was then followed by other papers confirming both the existence of anisotropies in the angular distribution of bursts and the existence of huge Gpc structures in the spatial distribution. These observational facts are in contradiction with the Cosmological Principle, because the large scale averaging hardly can be provided. The aim of this contribution is to survey these publications.

6 pages, 5 figures, presented at 16th INTEGRAL BART Workshop IBWS, Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), May 20-24, 2019; a survey of the articles about the problems of the cosmological principle

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