The unexpected comedy (or tragedy -- take your pick) is that astrophysicists still don't recognize the shape of this object as a plasma pinch. They'll admit in their textbooks that 99%+ of the universe's visible matter is within the plasma state, and they may not even disagree when you inform them that a plasma will ignore gravity within the presence of an electromagnetic field with only 1% ionization. But when they see *electrical* formations in their cosmic plasmas which look precisely like the thunderbolt which Zeus holds in his hand and the electrical laboratory plasma physics formations we observe within the laboratory, they go into a fit -- as if it has nothing to do with empirical science.http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2004/arch/041004 ...http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/0611 ...So long as astrophysicists refuse to properly model cosmic plasmas to match the observed behavior of plasmas within the laboratory, our understanding of the universe will continue to trail our observations of it.