Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Researchers have just discovered a new mystery of black holes. They detect there is light behind the space object.
The findings come from Stanford university astrophysicist Dan Wilkins and his colleagues using two X-ray telescopes: NASA’s NuStar and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton. With this information, it can fulfill the predictions derived from the general theory of relativity by Albert Einstein.
The research team observed the X-rays given off by the supermassive black hole. It is located at the center of the galaxy and runs 800 light years from Earth.
This event is unusual, because the great gravity around a black hole can heat material up to millions of degrees. As well as releasing radio waves and X-rays even very hot materials are thrown off by rapid courtship.
But Wilkins found the X-ray flashes were smaller and had a different color. It’s on the far side of the black hole.
“Any light that goes into a black hole doesn’t come out, so we shouldn’t be able to see anything behind the black hole,” Wilkins said.
Wilkins added that the strange nature of black holes allowed the observations to be made. Because the object bends space and light and rotates the magnetic field around it.
Study co-author Roger Blandford and professor of physics at Stanford University said that 50 years ago no one would have thought that there was currently a technique for experiencing black holes directly. And also see Einstein’s theory of general relativity at work.
For information, Einstein’s theory is a matter of warping space-time. The theory lasted hundreds of years along with new astronomical discoveries.
Some black holes have a ring of bright light around them when material falls into them and gets hot. X-rays are one way for scientists to study and map black holes.
While studying X-ray flashes, Wilkins noticed a small flash. He and his team realized that a larger flash was being reflected and bent around the black hole from behind the object.
This incident also allowed the research team to see the far side of the black hole. Wilkins said he had made theoretical predictions about the appearance of the echo in recent years.
“I’ve seen it in the theory I developed, so as soon as I see it in telescope observations I can tell the connection,” he explained.
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