Supermassive Black Hole In Milky Way's Centre Has A 'Leak,' Says NASA
The supermassive black hole situated at the centre of the Milky Way has a "leak", NASA says. The space agency claims that they've noted signs of the black hole pushing into a gigantic hydrogen cloud "like the narrow stream from a hose aimed into a pile of sand."
Even then, NASA has not managed to capture the "phantom jet" yet. The supermassive black hole is actively sucking in material, leaving behind a trail in the form an accretion disk.
How was the "leak" created?
Some things that fall into this supermassive black hole in the middle of Milky Way results in the creation of outflowing jets that flow in the same direction as its magnetic fields.
Every time the black swallows a giant object (for instance, a gas cloud) such jets are products.
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With help from the telescope at the ALMA Observatory in Chile, scientists were able to notice a "narrow line of molecular gas" traceable to at least 15-years ago, according to Independent.
Based on this discovery, astronomers found a "glowing, inflated bubble of hot gas" about 35 light-years away from the black hole, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Such phenomena can birth expanding bubbles near the black hole that can go as far as 500 light-years away from the supermassive black hole in the centre of Milky Way.
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Black holes are known to have periods of luminosity when they also tend to swallow more objects. About two to four million years, our black hole had an outburst strong enough to create a pair of glowing bubbles that are situated above the Milky Way and were discovered in 2010 and 2003, Independent reported.
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Smith, A. (2021, December 13). Supermassive black hole in the Milky Way has a ‘leak’, Nasa says. The Independent.?
