“An invisible monster in the wild”: alert to NASA for an object moving at incredible speed

An “extremely rare” phenomenon occurred in the last days of January when a star was “swallowed” by a black hole. Now the pot has issued a warning about a disturbing case which they have labeled an “invisible monster” and which is under constant scrutiny.

NASA warned a few hours ago that there is a “loose invisible monster” which is traversing space as fast as if it were in our solar system it could travel nearly 384,400 kilometers in just 14 minutes that separate the Earth from the Moon.

The astronomical object in question is a runaway supermassive black hole that it is estimated to be 20 million times more massive than the Sun. It was found that the phenomenon left a trail of gas and stars measuring approximately 200,000 light years, twice the diameter of the Milky Way.

NASA explained that this is because the fast black hole it’s pushing the gas ahead of him to create a new star formation along a narrow corridor, instead of eating up the stars ahead of him. He also said the “invisible monster” sits at the tip of its parent galaxy’s column, with an “extraordinarily bright node” of ionized oxygen at its outermost tip.

A black hole has such a strong gravitational pull that nothing, not even light, can escape from it. Hence its name, since it does not emit light, black holes are invisible.

On the other hand, those responsible for the discovery of the “out of control” black hole recently reported in The letters from the astrophysicist diarysuggested that this condition could be caused by gas being impacted and heated by the motion of the astronomical object, or by an accretion disk around it that is causing radiation.

The case was discovered by chance by an international group of astronomers while they were observing the dwarf galaxy RCP28, located 7,500 million light-years from Earth, using the NASA’s Hubble Telescope. The researchers said the phenomenon is not visible in the intergalactic medium, although its star-forming signature is, hence the name “invisible monster”.

Pietter Van Dokkumk, of Yale University, explained that because of this condition, Hubble’s observations had to be verified with a low-resolution spectrometer of the KECK-1 telescope, located in Hawaii. There they detected that the black hole was traveling through a halo of gas, after being ejected from its host galaxy, at a speed of 1,600 kilometers per second.

This ejection happened after three black holes coalesced 40 million years ago into one chaotic and unstable configuration, after their host galaxies collide with each other. Due to the strong gravitational forces unleashed by this galactic collision, one of the black holes ended up rapidly receding in the opposite direction to the other two.

For its part, NASA has pointed out that there is a feature that is seen on the opposite side of the host galaxy it could be the runaway binary black hole. However, there are no signs of an active black hole remaining in the galaxy’s core, so the next step is to make follow-up observations with his james webb space telescopeas well as with its Chandra X-ray observatory to confirm what happened to this astronomical object.

The star swallowed by a black hole

An “extremely rare” phenomenon occurred in the last days of January when NASA announced that a star had been “swallowed” by a black hole, “stretched” and exploded in the form of energy in the direction of planet Earth. something that until recently was unimaginable to be able to appreciate.

This phenomenon (which poses no danger to the Earth) is known as Tidal break event (TDE). What happens to the star when it enters the black hole and detaches from its original shape – it ‘stretches’ until it takes on another shape – is called “spaghettization”. It usually happens at a distance imperceptible to the human eye.

It was detected by a group of astronomers who published their research Nov. 30 in the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy. It was the furthest TDE in history.

Researchers reported detecting a supermassive black hole engulfing a star 12.4 billion light-years away in an event they dubbed AT2022cmc.

The jet of energy that erupted from the black hole was “bright” and “massive,” making it observable from Earth using optical telescopes.

“The luminous jet of material was shot at nearly the speed of light and was aimed in our direction,” he told The Daily Beast. Igon AndreoniUniversity of Maryland astronomer and co-editor of the journal Nature.

“This is an extremely rare phenomenon and it is even rarer that it can be observed because the jet is collimated, which means that we can only observe it if we are very close to the direction in which it is pointing”, concluded the specialist.

For Andreoni, light traveled through the cosmos for 8.5 billion years before reaching uswhen the universe was a third of his age.

“We argued that the black hole was probably spinning fast, which could play an important role in launching these powerful jets,” Andreoni said.

He continued: “We also concluded that the black hole, despite being ‘supermassive’, is no more massive than most black holes at the center of galaxies. ‘Only’ a few hundred million times the mass of our Sun.

The researcher thinks a new observatory will be able to “detect an entire population of jet-propelled TDEs” using optical telescopes. “Revealing such a rare population of transients means we can greatly improve our understanding of the violent universe,” he said.