Researchers have caught an amazing supermassive black hole

Researchers have caught an amazing supermassive black hole

A team of scientists were able to capture a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. She pulled in the gas, and then “burped” twice. Most likely, this hole exploded, blowing streams of bright light and gas, which consumed about 100,000 years. Astronomers predicted that objects might flicker and go out, but this is a rare case when it was possible to capture an event in the process.

Supermassive black holes surpass the solar mass millions of times. It is believed that they are hiding in the center of almost every galaxy, possessing a powerful gravitational pull. When the areas around such holes emit light when fed, they begin to be called quasars.

The galaxy studied is called J1354. She lives in a distance of 900 million light years. For the review, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer X-ray Observatory were used. Later joined the Keck Observatory (Hawaii) and Apache Point (New Mexico).

Researchers have caught an amazing supermassive black hole

The image shows the galaxies SDSS J1354 + 1327 (lower center) and SDSS J1354 + 1328 (top right). The insert shows a four-color image that combines red, green and blue filtered Hubble images with Chandra X-ray. A shot from Hubble demonstrates a bubble of hot, ionized gas near a supermassive black hole. It seems that the hole has released jets of bright light from a gas that is accreted from a nearby galaxy. Over the past 100,000 this has happened twice. A pair of galaxies is 800 million light years distant from us. Why did the black hole have lunch twice? It's all about the satellite galaxy associated with the J1354 star and gas streams. Most likely, the material spun in the center of J1354, and then swallowed by a hole. The analysis showed that the event happened about a million years ago.

The Chandra Observatory received a tremendous amount of X-ray radiation from J1354, showing that dust and gas heated to millions of degrees when the material fell to the center of the hole. The X-ray spectrum indicates that it is in a heavy dust and gas haze.

Similar “belching” is characteristic of our galaxy. So in 2010 there was a roar of the Milky Way, captured by the Fermi Observatory. Scientists have noticed gas jets, which would later be called Fermi bubbles (shine in gamma radiation).

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