Hubble Captures Bizarre Black Hole Helping Birth Sun-Like Stars Far Away
As the name suggests, black holes are regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing; not even light can escape its clutches. If a human being were to fall into a black hole, we'd begin undergoing spaghettification immediately and our existence would be history.
Now, NASA recently witnessed black holes exhibiting bizarre behaviour. Yep, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found black holes that were creating suns. Situated in the heart of dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10, the black hole is creating new stars like our Sun.
Unusual behaviour for black holes
Displaying behaviour alien to black holes, this particular gravity-bending hole is situated 30 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pyxis.
The details of this black hole were shared by NASA in a blog post, where the American space agency also highlighted how this discovery would help them better understand the origins of black holes.
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In the study that was published in Nature journal, lead investigator Amy Reines claimed that she noticed something unusual about this particular black hole situated in Henize 2-10. Using NASA's powerful Hubble telescope, they found a strange connection between the black hole and star-forming region situated 230 light-years from the black hole.
This is extremely groundbreaking because black holes are known for munching on stars and planets and not for birthing them.
According to Reines, Hubble's "amazing resolution clearly shows a corkscrew-like patter in in velocities of the gas, which we can fit to the model of a precessing, or wobbling, outflow from a black hole."
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Perhaps it's the subtleness (in pure relative terms) of the Henize 2-10 is a less massive black hole with a gentle outflow. It is possible that the radiation could be coming from a supernova remnant. But Hubble researchers are convinced it's a black hole.
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