07-12-2019, 11:22 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/science/nasas-hu...ldnt-exist
NASA’s Hubble telescope has recently discovered a supermassive black hole that defies existing theories about the universe, a report said.
The black hole, which is about 250 million times heavier than the sun, lies at the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147 and is 140 million light-years from Earth.
Spotted around the black hole was a thin “accretion disk” containing debris and gas rapidly pacing around the edge, according to findings published Thursday in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The black hole was unusual in that its gravitational pull was not capturing the disk of material, which was moving at 10 percent the speed of light, according to the journal.
Lead author Stefano Bianchi said it’s “the same type of disk we see in objects that are 1,000 or even 100,000 times more luminous.”
I suspect this won't end up being anything too drastic: they may well find that it's as simple as an error in one of the measurements.
However, it'll be pretty interesting if it does end up requiring a modification to our current theories! I wonder what it would be?
NASA’s Hubble telescope has recently discovered a supermassive black hole that defies existing theories about the universe, a report said.
The black hole, which is about 250 million times heavier than the sun, lies at the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147 and is 140 million light-years from Earth.
Spotted around the black hole was a thin “accretion disk” containing debris and gas rapidly pacing around the edge, according to findings published Thursday in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The black hole was unusual in that its gravitational pull was not capturing the disk of material, which was moving at 10 percent the speed of light, according to the journal.
Lead author Stefano Bianchi said it’s “the same type of disk we see in objects that are 1,000 or even 100,000 times more luminous.”
I suspect this won't end up being anything too drastic: they may well find that it's as simple as an error in one of the measurements.
However, it'll be pretty interesting if it does end up requiring a modification to our current theories! I wonder what it would be?
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