Andamanz.in
No Result
View All Result
Saturday, June 10, 2023
  • Home
  • Business
  • Politics
  • City
  • Crime
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • Tech
  • Sports
Andamanz.in
  • Home
  • Business
  • Politics
  • City
  • Crime
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • Tech
  • Sports
No Result
View All Result
Andamanz.in
No Result
View All Result
Home Tech

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Spots Runaway Supermassive Black Gap Leaving Behind Path of Newborn Stars

by Staff Reporter
April 9, 2023
in Tech
0
152
SHARES
1.9k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


A supermassive black gap, weighing as a lot as 20 million Suns, has left behind a 2,00,000-light-year-long condensed path of new child stars, twice the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy, in its wake, in keeping with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), US.

Captured unintentionally by NASA‘s Hubble Space Telescope, the black gap was seen racing by way of the intergalactic house so quick that, inside our photo voltaic system, it might journey from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes.

“We think we’re seeing a wake behind the black hole where the gas cools and is able to form stars. So, we’re looking at star formation trailing the black hole,” stated Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, US.

“What we’re seeing is the aftermath. Like the wake behind a ship, we’re seeing the wake behind the black hole,” stated van Dokkum.

The researchers have revealed their paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

They stated that the black gap lies at one finish of the column, on the different finish of which lies its father or mother galaxy. They assume that the fuel is being ‘shocked’ and heated from the movement of the black gap hitting the fuel, or it may very well be radiation from an accretion disk across the black gap.

“This is pure serendipity that we stumbled across it,” van Dokkum added. He was on the lookout for globular star clusters in a close-by dwarf galaxy.

“I was just scanning through the Hubble image and then I noticed that we have a little streak. I immediately thought, ‘oh, a cosmic ray hitting the camera detector and causing a linear imaging artifact.’ When we eliminated cosmic rays we realized it was still there. It didn’t look like anything we’ve seen before,” stated van Dokkum.

Van Dokkum and his group adopted up the sight with spectroscopy with the W M Keck Observatories in Hawaii. The star path being “quite astonishing, very, very bright and very unusual” made them conclude that they have been wanting on the aftermath of a black gap flying by way of a halo of fuel surrounding the host galaxy.

Astronomers suspect this phenomenon to doubtless be the results of a number of collisions of supermassive black holes, the primary two having maybe merged 50 million years in the past. Brought collectively nearer at their centres, they whirled round one another as a binary black gap, they stated.

Then got here one other galaxy with its personal supermassive black gap, mixing up the three to type a chaotic and an unstable configuration. One of the black holes robbed momentum from the opposite two black holes and bought thrown out of the host galaxy, they stated.

Following this, the remaining binary system of black holes shot off in the other way, they stated.

There is a function seen on the alternative aspect of the host galaxy that could be the runaway binary black gap. Circumstantial proof for that is that there isn’t a signal of an energetic black gap remaining on the galaxy’s core, they stated.

The subsequent step, they stated, could be to do follow-up observations with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory to verify the black gap clarification.


Smartphone corporations have launched many compelling gadgets over the primary quarter of 2023. What are among the finest telephones launched in 2023 you should purchase at the moment? We talk about this on Orbital, the Gadgets 360 podcast. Orbital is obtainable on Spotify, Gaana, JioSaavn, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and wherever you get your podcasts.
Affiliate hyperlinks could also be robotically generated – see our ethics assertion for particulars.
Tags: Blackblack holeearthHolehubblehubble space telescopeleavingmilky wayMoonnasa hubble telescope runaway supermassive black hole nasaNASAsNewbornRunawaySpotsstarsSupermassiveTelescopeTrail
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest

Illegal Sand Mining: A Menace to Havelock Island

February 12, 2023

Eco Diver India Takes a Step Towards Reef Conservation: Offers Free Dive Master Courses to Andaman’s Underprivileged Youths

February 19, 2023

Low stress space shaped over South Andaman Sea, neighbouring area: IMD – Business Standard

February 12, 2023

SCUBA diving industry facing crisis due to illegal practices and compromise in safety

February 21, 2023

Full Ban on Recognized Single Use Plastic Objects all through the Nation from 1st July 2022

0

Large infrastructure undertaking threatens Great Nicobar Island

0

Absconding accused hotelier arrested from Haryana’s Karnal

0

Cold Wave Sweeps Northern States Will Proceed For Subsequent 3 Days IMD

0

After Ranbir Kapoor, Ram Charan to purchase 10000 tickets of Prabhas starrer

June 10, 2023

Heat: Neymar Reveals Motive Why He Is Watching Jimmy Butler within the Finals

June 10, 2023

Twitter to Pay Verified Content material Creators For Adverts in Replies

June 10, 2023

4.0 magnitude earthquake hits Andaman and Nicobar island – ANI News

June 10, 2023

Most Popular

Aamir Khan’s son Junaid to star reverse Janhvi Kapoor’s sister Khushi Kapoor in Love Today remake? Here’s what we all know

March 24, 2023

Rousing welcome to Ok.P.Mammu after successful medals in World Fire Fighters Games 2022

November 29, 2022

The Rise of Hypersonic Balloons: China Leads the Cost in Aerial Warfare

February 13, 2023

LeBron James’ Sport Attracts Shocking Confession from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

March 24, 2023

Was Virat Kohli Out Or Not Out Off Matthew Kuhnemann? Sunil Gavaskar Gives His Verdict

February 19, 2023

Anuj Kapadia WARNS Anu over making false guarantees to Chotti; picks Maya to accompany daughter on faculty picnic

February 19, 2023
Andamanz.in

Categories

  • Business
  • City
  • Crime
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • Politics
  • Scuba Diving
  • Sports
  • Tech
  • Uncategorized

Site Navigation

  • Home
  • Contact US
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Terms and Conditions

Recent News

After Ranbir Kapoor, Ram Charan to purchase 10000 tickets of Prabhas starrer

June 10, 2023

© 2022 Andamanz - All Rights Reserved

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Politics
  • City
  • Crime
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • Tech
  • Sports

© 2022 Andamanz - All Rights Reserved