Posted on 01/18/2016 9:03:18 AM PST by Citizen Zed
The galaxy, which is called W2246-0526 and 12.4 billion light years from Earth, is the most luminous in the universe, according to a 2015 NASA study. If all galaxies were the same distance from us, this one would shine the brightest. In new research, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, this shiniest of galaxies is expelling incredibly turbulent gases, which has never been evidenced in this kind of space body before.
"It is like a pot of boiling water being heated up by a nuclear reactor in the center," Tanio Diaz-Santos of the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, lead author of a new study about this galaxy, said in a press release.
The galaxy is essentially self-cannibilizing, tearing itself apart, according to Roberto Assef, astronomer with the Universidad Diego Portales and leader of the observing team at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.
"The momentum and energy of the particles of light deposited in the gas are so great that they are pushing the gas out in all directions," Assef added.
The research team detected large amounts of ionized carbon that were in a "turbulent state" flowing through the galaxy. What is causing this disturbance? A supermassive black hole resides at the galaxy's center, pulling together swirling gases and other matter to create an object known as an accretion disk. This disk causes friction that produces a level of brightness that equals that of 300 trillion suns combined.
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Or cleaning it out from being up someones read end.
Is light considered matter?
When I read the story headline my first thought was odumbo (black hole) tearing apart the most luminous galaxy (the U.S.)........ I did leave out a few choice thoughts on odumbo though.
You're of course describing a "singularity". I don't think anyone knows, or perhaps even can know, what is happening inside a black hole, or its supposed singularity. In the case of neutron stars, negatively charged electrons are supposedly forced by the immense gravitational field into the nuclei of atoms where they combine with positively charged protons creating an overall neutral atom, thus the term neutron star.
At 12.4 billion light years from Earth, wouldn’t the proper tense be ‘was’ and not ‘is’ ?
That’s a Black A-Hole not quite the same as in astronomer terms.
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Yes to everything you said except I've never thought of a neutron star as a giant neutron but lots of neutrons squished together. Maybe that's what you are saying. One tablespoon weighing hundreds of billions of tons. Just amazing to think about and add to that a 6 mile diameter spinning at 40,000 rpms.
...and our country is being torn apart by a black a-hole.
How can you accept the existance of a black hole singularity, but not the big bang singularity that created the universe?
Yes, lots of neutrons squished together. But the individual neutrons are supposedly created in the manner I described. My guess would be that the atoms are squished together before being further compressed into pure neutrons. In any case, there are some pretty wild things going on out there in the universe.
Well first I'm a creationist. Second, I don't see a reason for it to blow up. By definition even light can't escape a black hole. For me and I think some physicists the singularity of the matter in a black hole means that the matter is gone and all that is left is a dense gravitational field. If so it couldn't become matter again like heat can't become matter again. But these things are so speculative. This is where I pull out my bible.
So true. The heavens seem so dark and quiet but the dynamics of what is really going on is amazing. What a huge and amazing universe. No wonder the natural man worships it, like I used to.
It’s energy, but that cannot be created or destroyed either.
“What about matter consumed by fusion?”
Matter isn’t consumed in fusion, it is fused together (except for the byproducts, which are simply ejected along with the excess energy).
E=mc^2 is the amount of energy created by the consumption of matter in either Fusion or Fission. A small percentage of the matter is gone, destroyed, consumed. OK the matter is converted into an exactly equal amount of energy but it is no longer matter.
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“OK the matter is converted into an exactly equal amount of energy but it is no longer matter.”
Conversion doesn’t equal destruction. Matter and energy are interchangeable phenomena, that’s what E=Mc^2 really tells us.
As long as you remember that the “M” in the equation represents “mass” (not matter). I miss Einstein.
When he did the actual observation of light from a star bending around an object in between us and it, was he doing an experiment about space bending, or light having mass, or gravity, .........or what?
Yes, but we never see energy converted to matter that I can think of. Converting all matter into balls of pure gravity would seem a lot like heat death, it's gravity death of the universe. I've read that they are finding way more and bigger black holes than ever suspected.
The idea that a million stars worth of matter can be compressed out of existence and all that remains is a gravitational field bound by it's own gravity just makes me want to say the matter is destroyed. It's pretty much semantics.
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