Artist’s illustration of a runaway supermassive black hole ejected from its host galaxy as a result of the conflict between it and two other black holes. [Πηγή: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI)]
One oversized Black hole which is moving away from its galaxy at a speed of approx 4 million miles per hour, Astronomers led by Yale University discovered.
Analysis of images from space Hubble telescope From NASA, researchers have discovered an unusual, very thin, almost straight bar of young stars.
After observations using the Keck Observatory’s Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and Near Infrared Spectrometer, they concluded that they were seeing traces of a flying black hole. The results are published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
“We haven’t seen anything like this anywhere in the universe.”
The black hole has left one behind An unprecedented trail of newborn stars200,000 light-years away.
“We think we see wave behind the black hole, as the gas cools and is able to form stars. “So we see star formation in the aftermath of the black hole,” says Yale University astronomy and physics professor and lead author of the study, Peter van Dokkum.
What we see is the following. Like th I wake up Behind a ship, we see the flow beyond the black hole.”
notice it “We haven’t seen anything like this anywhere in the universe.”
“We’ve known for a long time that supermassive black holes exist, and it’s been predicted for 50 years that they can sometimes eject galaxies. If confirmed, it would be them. first clue of a runaway supermassive black hole, which would prove this prediction.”
Galaxy Billiards
One possible explanation for a black hole moving away from its home galaxy relates to Two galaxies merge They both have a supermassive black hole at their core.
As the black holes orbit each other in the center of the newly merged galaxy, a third supermassive black hole invades into another galaxy andinteraction between the three It builds up enough speed to blow up one of the three black holes. Something like one Galaxy Billiards between three massive black holes.
At a later stage, the researchers are seeking to make observations with the space telescope James Webb and the Chandra X-ray Space Observatory to confirm whether their discovery is in fact a runaway black hole.
Source: RES-MPE
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