Astronomers Witness Black Hole Gobbling Up a Star
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Astronomers Witness Black Hole Gobbling Up a Star
Cast the look of your telescope at a point long ago in a galaxy far, far away, and you may just have the opportunity to see a black hole swallows a star. And that’s exactly what researchers did with the first infrared images of this event can be released. The star in question, known to his friends as Swift J1644 57 is pulled near the supermassive black hole and was torn apart by gravity. Magnetic fields around the black hole, and then send a direct stream of particles in space.
It is these particles that were collected by an international team of astronomers tracking the visible and infrared light using space and ground telescopes.
The explosions were so vivid radiation and powerful that scientists were convinced they could be a star is absorbed by a black hole.
Im Myung-Shin, a professor at Seoul National University in Korea and a team member of astronomy that studies the event, said. “There was a lot of curiosity about how black holes grow by becoming heavier since the mid-1970s there was constant prediction that black holes swallow stars, but nobody has really taken the time when a hole Black swallows a star. ”
“In the end we saw the phenomenon, which was previously only a theoretical prediction. For what they were able to provide new evidence for the existence of a supermassive black hole, so I think it’s important.”
The researchers thank their lucky stars that the NASA’s Swift satellite has seen the event – until now had only ever seen at the end of the process, rather than the beginning.
Super black hole in question is estimated at about one million times the mass of our sun.
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