7 strange facts about black holes
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Black holes are perhaps the most nightmare fascinating features of our universe. Absen, such as long dark tunnels (or giant garbage throwing), these mysterious luminaires in space apply such a immersive that they cannot escape the swallowing – not even light. Those who go in, never come out. (Then more.)
Therefore, black holes are invisible to the eye, the empty, dark space surrounding them is as light as light. Scientists know that they exist because they can see a real hole, but because a black hole exists because the short shortage of gravity affects the orbits of nearby stars and gas. Another clue is the overheating of detective radiation emitted as absorbed gas. In fact, these powerful x-ray emissions led to the discovery of Cygnus X-1, the first black hole in the constellation Cygnus in 1964.
If all this seems like science fiction, keep reading. Only the tip of the cosmic iceberg. While discovering scientists, black holes are even more strange than science fiction. Here are seven mystery to think.
1. Black holes disrupt the time and space around
If you flew next to a black hole, it is increasingly and more and more Slow time and warp area. You will always be attracted closer, gradually, you will join a collection disk of the area material (stars, gases, dust, planets) that progresses towards the horizon of activity, or to the “return point”. After passing this limit, gravity overcomes all the chances of escape, and when you dive into the singularity in the center of the black hole, it becomes super tense or “spagietized”-a small point with a monster mass in which the theoretically approached the infinity and space-time curves. In other words, as we understand them, you will score and be destroyed in a place that completely challenged the laws of physics.
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2. Black holes income in miniature, medium and mammoth sizes
Medium -sized star mass black holes The most common type. When a large dying star or supernova explodes and the remaining core collapses from the weight of their gravity. Eventually, it turns into a small, infinite intense singularity that forms the center. In reality, then, black holes are not really holes, but the points of highly compressed substances with large -sized gravity footprints. Star mass black holes typically about 10 times heavier than our sun Scientists discovered a few Significantly larger.
Super Mass Black Hole The largest in the universe, some of them are from our sun billions of times. Scientists do not fully understand how they are formed, but these tremendous celestial mind-sogas may have emerged shortly after the big explosion, and it may be believed to exist at the center of each galaxy. The smallest. Our own Milky Way galaxy is spirals around Sagittarius A* (or Sgr a*) containing approximately 4 million sun masses.
Researchers also discovered recently hidden black holes It seems to have eaten and swallowed materials and gases at a slower rate, ie less X-ray spreads, so it is difficult to detect. Astronomers believe that they are small Primordial black holes It was founded in seconds after Big Bang. This mini Myseries has not yet been observed, but the smallest may be smaller than an atom (but with an asteroid mass) and the universe. overflow with them.
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3. There are too many black holes to count
It is thought that the Milky Way Galaxy is alone 10 million to one billion stars mass black holePlus Supermassive Sgr a* in the heart. With 100 billion galaxies, each of which is a black -mass black hole and a super -mass monster, each of which is a 100 billion galaxy, with 100 billion galaxies.
4. Black holes swallow something – and spit them regularly
Hunters make reliable, black holes, tracking planets and other field hunting for dinner. On the contrary, these celestial monsters like this unfortunate star, which scientists have watched the swallowing for the last ten years, feast with materials in the very close orbit ( The longest black hole never saved). The good news is that the world is not in a collision course with known black holes.
But it doesn’t just mean that we shouldn’t worry that we are not likely to collapse. This is because SGR A* (and probably other super -mass giants) launch from time to time from planetary “Spitballs” that can do us one day.
How do Spitballs escape from the clutch of a black hole? In fact, it was made of substances that were from the accumulation disc before passing the return point and joining the pieces. In the case of SGR A*, these heavy parts spread to our galaxy at a speed of 20 million miles per hour. Here we hope that someone will not be brought closer to our solar system.
5. Super -mass black holes also give birth to stars and determine how many stars a galaxy takes
As the planetary -sized parts are thrown from the collection disk, a new discovery shows that black holes open enough material to be created as a whole from time to time. New Stars. It is even more remarkable, some in deep space, it goes far beyond the origin galaxies.
And 2018 study in Nature magazine, super -mass black holes not only create new stars, but also Check how many stars of a galaxy By directly affecting how fast the star formation process is closed. Star formation, perhaps in a strange way, in the smaller galaxies – in a speaking way – stops faster in the black holes in the center.
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6. It is possible to look at Abyss
The new event, supported by nine people from the world’s highest resolution telescopes, Ufuk Telescope, has taken photos for the first time recently Activity horizons surrounding two black holes. One is its own SGR A*, and the other is a super -mass black hole with Galaxy Messier 87, 53 million light years away. The image of the latter, which is now called Powehi, surprised the astronomers in April 2019, but the photo session showed new interest to what the black holes resembled and the ongoing questions about the laws that direct them.
7. Again another black hole head drawer
Astronomers in South Africa have recently come across a distant area with super -mass black holes in various galaxies. aligned in the same direction. So, gas emissions go out as if they were synchronized with design. The current theories cannot explain how black holes move at the concert until 300 million light years. In fact, the only way for researchers is that if these black holes turn in the same direction – something that can occur during the formation of the galaxy in the early universe.
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