In a series of observations of the Hubble telescope, astronomers saw a clear interference – a bright stroke, which they considered to be a cosmic particle hitting the sensor. However, writes the 3Dnews portal, a careful study of the image shed light on something previously unseen. It turned out that in the picture, the black hole was running away from the binary system of black holes and losing nascent stars along the way.
According to the calculations performed, a supermassive black hole with a mass of about 20 million solar masses is rapidly moving away from a binary system of black holes. The fugitive left behind a never-before-seen trail of newborn stars 200,000 light-years long. The length of the plume is twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy – this is a colossal and absolutely unusual formation.
“We think we see a trail behind the black hole where the gas cools down and is able to form stars. Thus, we observe star formation behind a black hole, the lead author of the study explained. “What we see is the consequences. Like the trail of a ship, we see the trail of a black hole.”
In the trail, according to scientists, there should be many new stars.
The black hole does not have time to absorb the matter behind it, because it is moving very quickly. But the gas flying in front of it also falls on the hole, not all. This is ionized oxygen, which glows brightly in the image either from the accretion of matter onto the hole or from impact processes. What exactly happens there, scientists do not undertake to judge yet. For this, additional studies will be carried out, including observations with the help of “James Webb”.
Source: Rosbalt
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