A massive black hole is causing trails of stars to form in space
The US space agency (NASA) has shown the unprecedented discovery of a huge black hole, whose flow causes the formation of paths of stars, 200,000 light-years away from Earth.
The mass of this black hole exceeds twenty million times the size of the sun, and it moves at maximum speed in space, colliding with the gas clouds it encounters. As a result of this strong movement, the gas turns into a chain of stars, and the Hubble Space Telescope was able to observe these stellar paths.
"We think we see a rise behind the black hole, where gas cools and can form stars," said the scientist at Yale University, Peter van Dokkum, in a statement. Here we see a trail left by the black hole."
The researchers believe that it is possible that the temperature of the gas rose due to the collision of the black hole with it, and then it cools down after the hole passed, which leads to the emergence of stars.
Van Dokkum pointed out that "the gas is affected by the supersonic effect of the black hole, which is moving at extreme speed."
The discovery of the first "moving" black hole in space
Scientists from the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University, USA, were able to monitor a black hole moving in space at a speed of about 177,000 kilometers per hour.
A 'Heavenly Beast' posed no danger
Scientists believe that this hole, which is a "celestial monster", comes from a huge group of three galaxies.
According to their theory, two galaxies may have merged about 50 million years ago, causing two supermassive black holes to orbit each other.
However, a third galaxy with its own black hole collided with this group, which led to the creation of an unstable and chaotic trio, which led to the expulsion of one of the black holes at a tremendous speed, as the hole observed by "Hubble" could travel the distance between the Earth and the Moon within 14 one minute.
The researchers who made this discovery stated that the black hole does not pose a threat to humanity, as what was discovered happened in space long ago, when the universe was half its current age.
As for the reason behind seeing this phenomenon now, it is due to the fact that the light took a long time to reach us. Van Dokkum pointed out that this discovery happened by chance.
Hubble telescope
And through the use of the "Hubble" space telescope, the scientist Peter van Dokkum observed "a small path of stars that is amazing, very bright and unusual," and said: "What we saw is unlike any cosmic phenomenon that we have observed previously."
NASA stated that this hole, the likes of which had not been observed before, may not be the only one in the universe.
It is assumed that the new "Nancy Grace Roman" space telescope, which is scheduled to be launched during the current decade, will provide a broader view of space, and may discover more star trails that are an indication of the presence of one of these giant holes.
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