In space have found a black hole that could swallow the Sun in two days
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It shines thousands of times brighter than the rest of the galaxy
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Astrophysicists from Australia have discovered in the constellation of the southern Fish “the voracious” black hole J2157-3602.
It could absorb the Sun for two days, reports “RIA Novosti” with reference to scientific publishing Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.
“This black hole is growing so fast that it shines thousands of times brighter than the rest of the galaxy. Its glow is produced by a huge mass of gas which it constantly draws to itself. If it were in the milky Way, it would Shine 10 times brighter than the Moon, and eclipsed the light of all the stars,” said Christian Wolff from the Australian National University in Canberra.
Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most known galaxies. Unlike black holes, resulting from the collapse of stars, their mass several million times more solar.
They occasionally swallow stars, other celestial bodies and gas and emit a portion of the captured matter in the form of jets beams of heated plasma moving at relativistic speeds.
These emissions, like today, say the astronomers, are the result of the fact that black holes are not capable of absorbing matter in unlimited quantities. There is a limit that astrophysics is called the Eddington limit, at which the matter starts to accumulate in the vicinity of the black hole in the form of a hot “doughnut” made of matter, accretion disk, where matter particles RUB against each other, are heated to ultrahigh temperatures and emitted a black hole in space.
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As noted by wolf, a large part of this light of the galaxy was the result of “stretching” of the x-ray and ultraviolet luminescence J2157-3602 on the way to the Ground.
Accordingly, if the black hole was in the center of the milky Way, life on our planet would not exist as it would have destroyed the radiation of this object.
“We don’t know how there was this object in such a short time. We hope that we will be able to find even more voracious black holes that will help us to reveal the secret of their birth and learn what role they played in the “enlightenment” of the Universe in the first era of her life,” the scientist said.
We will remind, earlier researchers found that in the case of the death of the Sun stellar system will become a “giant glowing bubble” of gas and dust.
As such, it will last a few thousand years, and then disappear