The luminous cosmic ray emitting source at the center of our Galaxy is not a "black hole" as some astronomers and the unwitting mass media would have you believe. Rather, it is a celestial orb that is over 2 million times the mass of our Sun and currently is seen, to radiate about 20 million times as much energy as our Sun. With a density of more than one ton per cubic centimeter, similar to a white dwarf, it would measure about one solar diameter. This Galactic core mass, known as Sagittarius A*, does not swallow matter to generate its energy. Rather, both energy and matter are spontaneously created within its depths seemingly in blatant violation of the First law of Thermodynamics (see below). The ensuing outward flux of radiation keeps this central "Mother Star" from collapsing.

   The gravity potential field around this Galactic core decreases inversely with increasing radial distance (G_p ~ 1/r), as shown above. Stars, gas, and dust orbit this body with velocities as high as 50% of the speed of light, but do not fall toward it. Gas and dust is instead seen to be moving radially outward from this source. After long intervals, the matter/energy generation process within the Sagittarius A* becomes unstable and it explodes with intense luminosity. Such galactic core explosions pose a potential threat to our planet.

   The First Law of Thermodynamics (in its most narrow interpretation) states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only interconverted from one preexisting physical form into another. The inherent flaw of this interpretation is that it presumes that there is no substrate of existence underlying the physical world of matter, energy and fields, i.e., no subquantum workings and no transmuting ether. If physicists wish to speak of ideas such as "zero point energy" or "quarks", the narrow interpretation of the First Law requires that this level of nature does not interact in any way with what takes place in our physical matter/energy world. Namely it perceives the physical universe as a closed system with no input or output changing its overall state.

   Although the narrow interpretation of the First Law may work well for explaining the workings of refrigerator appliances, it fails miserably when applied to matter and energy creation phenomena we see taking place in the cosmos. Here, very small departures from perfect energy conservation (far too small to measure in the laboratory) can produce very large scale effects such as supernovae or Galactic core explosions. These phenomena necessitate that we adopt a broad interpretation of the First Law, one that admits to the existence of an active subquantum etheric realm whose activity directly affects our physical universe. The physical universe is no longer viewed as a closed system, but as an open system, whose very existence depends on the continued activity of the subquantum realm. The First Law, then, may be more broadly interpreted as stating that the total system (quantum and subquantum) is conservative, but that when only considering part of the total, namely physical entities such as matter and energy, this subset may be nonconservative. One physics theory that conforms with this broad construction of the First Law is subquantum kinetics.

   So by realizing that there exists an underlying ether and that this ether functions as an open system, we may resolve the mystery of where the energy comes from that powers galactic core explosions. Like all open systems, the transmuting ether is able under certain circumstances to spontaneously generate order (matter and energy). The paradigm that explains this cosmogenic process may be found in the books Beyond the Big Bang and Subquantum Kinetics. Get your bookstore to order them.