Large-scale asymmetry between clockwise and counterclockwise galaxies revisited
arXiv:2004.02960 · doi:10.1002/asna.202013745
Abstract
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 galaxies with clockwise and counterclockwise spin patterns. Here I use spiral galaxies from SDSS and sort them by their spin patterns (clockwise or counterclockwise) to identify and profile a possible large-scale pattern of the distribution of galaxy spin patterns as observed from Earth. The analysis shows asymmetry between the number of clockwise and counterclockwise spiral galaxies imaged by SDSS, and a dipole axis. These findings largely agree with previous reports using smaller datasets. The probability of the differences between the number of galaxies to occur by chance is (P<4*10^-9), and the probability of an asymmetry axis to occur by mere chance is (P<1.4*10^-5).
arXiv commentAN, accepted
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