Astronomers told about a miraculous new discovery.
As the result of tidal interaction with matter, stars began to flow into a supermassive black hole and surrounding accretion disk.
American astrophysicists have discovered a “quiet” supermassive black hole, which was waking up trapped around the star. Devoted to a study published in the journal Nature, and briefly about it, reports NASA.
As the result of tidal interaction with matter, stars began to flow into a supermassive black hole and surrounding accretion disk. The destruction of the luminaries of the gravitational object, scientists have discovered upload source Swift J1644 + 57 x-ray radiation.
Supermassive black hole, scientists believe, is a million times heavier than the Sun. Swift J1644 + 57 is located in a compact galaxy at a distance of five billion light-years from Earth. To tidal interaction with the star hole was, like 90 percent of such objects in the Universe, in a calm state.
Supermassive black hole was first discovered on March 28, 2011 the us space telescope Swift. For a detailed study of the object attracted European scientists (XMM-Newton) and Japanese (Suzaku) satellites.
The peculiarity of the work is that they were able to study the gravitational object in the calm and in the moment when he destroyed the star. Observation, which lasted for 3.5 hours, will allow scientists describe the supermassive black holes in situations where they do not interact with other bodies.
To evaluate the peaks of the radiation holes scientists have used a new technique, called x-ray echocardiology. It allows you to analyze a small time delay that occurs when the radiation hole. This allowed the scientists to estimate the boundaries of the location of the inner edge of the accretion disk around Swift J1644 + 57. In the future, astrophysicists plan to evaluate the speed and direction of rotation of the black hole around its axis.
Supermassive black hole at least a hundred thousand times heavier than the Sun. As a rule, most active centers of large galaxies are objects. They, according to scientists, have a decisive influence on the evolution of large stellar systems. In particular, the centers of the milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy located supermassive black holes, which researchers estimate that approximately four billion years will merge into one.
