a A video recently shared by NASA presents Just how far supermassive black holes can get. supermassive black holes The masses are bigger from 100,000 sunss, and NASA’s new visualization shows just how far Our shop a star It looks meager by comparison.
The smallest piece is a relatively slim J1601 + 3113, A dwarf galaxy with a black hole at its center. NASA said in a launch Although J1601+3113 has 100,000 solar masses, it is so compact that the black hole’s shadow is actually smaller than the sun. The animation then expands outwards, eventually reaching the absolutely massive 618 tons, which is 60 billion times the mass of the Sun. According to NASA, TON 618 is just one of a few very distant, incredibly massive black holes that scientists already have direct measurements of.
“Direct measurements, made with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, confirm the existence of more than 100 supermassive black holes,” Jeremy Schnittman, a theorist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said in the NASA statement. “How do they get so huge? When galaxies collide, their central black holes may eventually merge together.”
Sagittarius A* also gets a defining moment in the animation. Sagittarius A* is black A hole in the center of the Milky Way It has a mass of 4.3 million suns. the black holes Shadow diameter About half the width from the orbit of Mercury. last Favorite, M87, He appears. M87 has a mass of 5.4 billion Suns subject of the first image of a black hole, Released in 2019 Through the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration.
The NASA animation gives a sense of the scale of these things Mysterious cosmic anomalies devouring matter across the universe. In October, scholars published Evidence of a black hole apparently regurgitating a star after years of consuming it. Researchers detected the black hole emitting material back into space in 2021 using an Earth-spanning observatory, but the black hole had not consumed any material in the previous three years. Last month, Team HReinforced that famous image of M87*using machine learning to reveal more details about the material surrounding the black hole.
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