![]() ![]() “These properties, this knowledge of the fundamental properties of the black hole will help us study the astrophysics of the black hole in more detail later on,” Issaoun said. She said the new image reveals some key details about the black hole that were previously unknown, including that one side of the black hole is almost directly facing Earth. NASA Einstein Fellow at the CfA Sara Issaoun worked on observations and imaging for the EHT team and discussed the image at the European press conference in Germany. “When we analyzed the velocities of this distant structure of stars, we realized that they were very similar to those obtained from the rotation of galaxies, so we decided to compare a much closer galaxy, and found that they are extraordinarily similar,” study co-author Mireia Montes said.“While M87 had one of the biggest black holes in the universe and it launches a jet that pierces its entire galaxy, Sgr A* is giving us a view into the much more standard state of black holes, quiet and quiescent,” said Johnson. ![]() This galaxy and the mysterious “black hole” have a similar mass of stars that moved in similar ways. Researchers compared the never-before-seen trail of stars with a more well-known bulgeless galaxy: IC5249. In one sense it is also a pity, because the existence of fleeing black holes is expected, and this could have been the first one to be observed.” A new study suggested that what was thought to be a supermassive black hole creating a never-before-seen trail of stars was actually a “bulgeless galaxy viewed edge-on.” NASA, ESA, Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) Joseph DePasquale (STScI) “It’s a relief to have found the solution to this mystery, the new proposed scenario is much simpler. “The motions, the size, and the quantity of stars fits what has been seen in galaxies within the local universe,” lead author Jorge Francisco Sánchez Almeida said in a statement. Now, researchers suggest the mystery trail of stars is actually a common type of galaxy, just viewed from a different angle. Like the wake behind a ship, we’re seeing the wake behind the black hole.” An artist’s impression of a runaway supermassive black hole ejected from its host galaxy as a result of a tussle between it and two other black holes. So, we’re looking at star formation trailing the black hole,” Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University said. “We think we’re seeing a wake behind the black hole where the gas cools and is able to form stars. Researchers from Yale University thought one of the black holes gained momentum from the other two and escaped out of its host galaxy, while the other two took off in the opposite direction. Then a third galaxy came with its own supermassive black hole, and the three combined to form a “chaotic and unstable configuration.” HSTĪstronomers believed the runaway black hole discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope was set free after two galaxies merged about 50 million years ago - which brought together two supermassive black holes at their centers. Image of the object observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. “There’s an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the moon in 14 minutes,” NASA wrote in a release last month. This revelation by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica in the Canary Islands challenges the thought that a black hole was pushing into gas in front of it to create the new star formation in a narrow corridor - rather than eating up the stars ahead of it, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long “contrail” of newborn stars twice the diameter of the Milky Way. ![]() Scientists have solved the mystery behind the “runaway” black hole tearing through the universe, which was discovered last month and quickly dubbed an “invisible monster on the loose.”Ī new study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics suggested that what was thought to be a supermassive black hole creating a never-before-seen trail of stars was actually a “bulgeless galaxy viewed edge-on.”Ī “bulgeless” galaxy lacks a large collection of stars at its center, according to NASA. Here’s how you can watch ‘Manhattanhenge’ tonight in NYCĬhina launches Shenzhou-16 spacecraft in mission to Chinese space station: state mediaĬhina plans to land astronauts on moon before 2030, another step in what looks like a new space race Less than 5% of hundreds of UFO sightings are actually unexplained: officials ![]()
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