Black hole turns out to produce the brightest light Universe. How do space “monsters” do?
Although black holes don’t directly emit light, citing ScienceAlert, it is the surrounding material that produces the light. A bright light appeared as material was sucked into the vortex of the black hole.
Among the brightest eddies in the material cycle are galaxies called blazars.
Not only do they glow from the heat of the swirling mantle, but they funnel matter into streaks of light that billow through the cosmos emitting an elusive radiation of energy.
Experts also know how the vortex of a black hole produces this powerful light energy, which can reach humans even if they are billions of light years away.
According to experts, the phenomenon occurs due to a shock inside the black hole that increases the speed of the particles to unreasonable levels.
“This is a 40-year-old mystery that we have solved. We finally have all the pieces of the puzzle and the picture is quite clear,” said Yannis Liodakis of the Finnish Center for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA).
Black hole activity is quite dynamic. Sometimes it’s just slightly active, but sometimes it’s the other way around.
These activities consist of ever-increasing material. Surrounding a black hole’s disk, there is usually a large collection of clouds, surrounding the disk like water in a sewer.
Gravitational and frictional interactions at extreme levels in the outer space around the black hole cause the material to heat up and emit bright light in various waves.
This is one of the black hole’s light sources. The light source on a blazar, on the other hand, is a jet of material launched from the polar region outside the black hole, in a straight line with the disk.
The material eruption is thought to have originated from the rim of the disc. Instead of falling into the center point of the black hole, it accelerates at breakneck speed along the external magnetic field lines to the poles.
The strip has long raised questions among pundits. But with the help of the X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) telescope, experts were able to solve the mystery.
“Measuring the polarization of X-rays has allowed us for the first time to directly compare models developed from observations of other frequencies of radio light with high-energy gamma rays,” said Immacolata Donnarumma of the Italian Space Agency.
IXPE was launched in December 2021. It then observed a blazar called Markarian 501 which is located 460 million light-years from the constellation Hercules.
For six days in March 2022, the telescope collected X-ray data resulting from the explosion of the blazar Markarian. At the same time, experts measure light from other waves, from radio to optics.
The team of experts then found differences in the X-rays. The orientation of the rays was significantly distorted or polarized with respect to the lower energy waves. Optical light is also more polarized than radio waves.
The results of this study were published by experts in journals Naturetitle Blazar polarized X-rays involve acceleration of particles during collisions.
“Although this jet is known to come from a very massive black hole, how this jet accelerates to very high energy levels is still an unanswered question. This process must be related to the magnetic field, which can be demonstrated by observing the polarization of light from the strip,” he wrote. They.
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