one of the most strong stuff In space it becomes more urgent and mysterious.
An international team led by researchers from University of California, Santa CruzThe Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen and Washington State University witnessed a black hole gobble up a single star, “tearing it apart,” causing its signature bright glow, UC Santa Cruz Nov. 10. New version he said.
The terrifying orgy, or “tidal disturbance event,” was captured in a dwarf galaxy 850 million light-years away. The young supernova experiment (YSE), an investigation that tracks cosmic explosions and “astrophysical transients”: extreme, cataclysmic events in the dark corners of space.
In a press release, university staff breaks it down into simpler terms, explaining that “a medium-mass black hole hidden in a dwarf galaxy reveals itself to astronomers when it gobbles up a wild star that has the misfortune to get too close.” Black holes are very difficult to detect, and telescopes that collect X-rays or light can’t even capture them. According to NASA. but, The first photo was taken in 2019 This suggests that they appear as dark objects surrounded by warm, luminous matter.
“We are in what I call the era of celestial cinema,” Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, a UC Santa Cruz professor who studies “violent universes,” said in a call to SFGATE. While YSE has helped capture hundreds, if not thousands of supernovae, he said, finding a medium-sized black hole digesting a star was a pleasant surprise.
“We haven’t really found many of these smaller-mass black holes, these elusive intermediate-mass black holes,” he said.
“This is something we didn’t expect,” laughs Ramirez Ruiz.
The embodiment of an unfortunate star that has made its way into a black hole.
University of California Santa Cruz / Observatory LLCHe added that such “interesting and unusual” disruption events were rare. Researchers have to scan 100,000 galaxies to see just one a year. Still, her discovery is significant because it may shed light on some of astronomy’s most pressing questions, namely how supermassive black holes form at the centers of massive galaxies, Ramirez-Ruiz said. Even our Milky Way has one of the giant galaxies at its heart, according to NASA.
In fact, 2022 is a good year for black holes.
In June, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley collected possible evidence of a ghostly “floating” black hole Adrift in space. Deemed “one of the strangest phenomena in astrophysics,” these objects have captured the hearts of researchers across California.
Ramirez-Ruiz said YSE will continue to monitor the galaxy for more cosmic events.
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