"The black hole, which is about 250 million times heavier [more massive] than the sun, lies at the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147 and is 140 million light-years from Earth"
Posted on 07/12/2019 8:37:51 PM PDT by ETL
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 [more massive] than the sun, lies at the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147 and is 140 million light-years from Earth.
The Hubble telescope has detected a supermassive black hole that technically shouldn't exist, according to new findings.
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.”
“The predictions of current models for gas dynamics in very faint active galaxies clearly failed,” Bianchi added.
By observing the disk through blocking out starlight, researchers were able to better study processes happening close to the black hole’s edge.
The team said they plan to study more galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope in the future to find similar disks of material.
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Object Description:
Spiral Galaxy
Object Position:
R. A. 10:16:53.6
Dec. +73:24:02
Constellation:
Draco
From HubbleSite.org
The image (below) is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Several filters were used to sample narrow wavelength ranges.
The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter.
In this case, the assigned colors are:
Blue: F555W
Green: F814W
Red: F160W
Object Name:
NGC 3147
Object Description:
Spiral Galaxy
Object Position:
R. A. 10:16:53.6
Dec. +73:24:02
Constellation:
Draco
Distance:
130 million light-years
Dimensions:
Image is 2.2 arcmin across (about 83,000 light-years across)
Data Description:
The HST observations include those from programs 15145 (A. Riess)
Instrument:
WFC3/UVIS; WFC3/IR
Exposure Dates:
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Filters:
F555W, F814W, F160W
https://hubblesite.org/image/4545
“140 million light-years from Earth”
You can get there by subway, but you have to transfer like 10^15 times.
And of course this is perfectly accurate to the nth degree.....
140 million x 5.9 TRILLION (miles)
:)
Why do you always have something negative to say...on everything?
Why do you post stuff that is unverifiable?
What was it you thought was settled science?
Just like bumblebees shouldn’t be able to fly.
The tokens are the real killer.
I know, and you have to pay ‘peak’ fares.
“The tokens are the real killer.”
I know, and you better pray the bathroom is operative.
Is that where all our federal tax money has been disappearing to?
I know, and you better pray the bathroom is operative.
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That’s why engineers invented roll down windows.
Well I am honored to be the one to say the humor that I thought would be obvious to everyone. Here it goes. Gosh don’t tell Mexico they may use this Wormhole to Tunnel away into the u.s.!
At least there aren’t a lot of panhandlers.
That can be a bit chilly, though.
The straightforward resolution to the problem: the presumed black hole doesn’t exist and something different is happening at the center of galaxies.
Good point.
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