{"id":135092,"date":"2024-12-09T13:34:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T06:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135092"},"modified":"2024-12-09T13:34:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T06:34:56","slug":"astronomers-wonder-if-galaxies-are-falling-into-this-giant-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135092","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers wonder if galaxies are falling into this giant black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article\">\n<p>The Hubble Space Telescope captured some weird, unidentified stuff in the most detailed photos ever taken of the immediate <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/space\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>space<\/u><\/a> surrounding a quasar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/black-hole-found-nasa-hubble-telescope\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Quasars<\/u><\/a>, a shortening of the term &#8220;quasi-stellar objects,&#8221; are blindingly bright galaxy cores in the early universe. Though these extremely distant objects look like stars in the sky, they&#8217;re the resulting light from feasting <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/interesting-black-holes-outer-space\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>supermassive black holes<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The telescope, a partnership between <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/nasa\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>NASA<\/u><\/a> and the European Space Agency, zoomed in on quasar 3C 273, about 2.5 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/how-long-is-a-light-year\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>light-years<\/u><\/a> from Earth. What it saw in the quasar&#8217;s midst was astounding and will prompt more research in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My colleagues are excited because they&#8217;ve never seen this much detail before,&#8221; said Bin Ren, an astronomer at the Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur in France, in <a href=\"https:\/\/hubblesite.org\/contents\/news-releases\/2024\/news-2024-024.html#section-id-2\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>a statement<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex mx-auto mt-8 w-full max-w-3xl font-sans text-lg leading-normal md:text-xl md:leading-7\">\n        <span class=\"font-bold text-primary-400\">SEE ALSO:<\/span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/nasa-artemis-2-moon-mission-delay\" class=\"flex items-center text-secondary-300\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ml-1\">NASA leader doubts Elon Musk will push Trump to axe moon rocket<\/span><br \/>\n            <svg class=\"ml-1 w-4 h-4 font-normal fill-current\"><use href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/images\/icons\/spritemap.svg#sprite-arrow-right-thin\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"eloquent-imagery-image\">\n<div class=\"flex justify-center\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border border-gray-100\" src=\"https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/00zs921UfyTB7YpNUa7Uxen\/images-1.fill.size_581x750.v1733600471.png\" alt=\"Hubble's images of the quasar 3C 273\" width=\"581\" height=\"750\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/00zs921UfyTB7YpNUa7Uxen\/images-1.fill.size_800x1033.v1733600471.png 800w, https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/00zs921UfyTB7YpNUa7Uxen\/images-1.fill.size_1400x1808.v1733600471.png 1400w, https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/00zs921UfyTB7YpNUa7Uxen\/images-1.fill.size_2000x2583.v1733600471.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n            <span class=\"normal-case text-gray-1000\">The Hubble Space Telescope took closeup images of quasar 3C 273.<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"text-gray-600 credit\">Credit: NASA \/ ESA \/ Bin Ren \/ Joseph DePasquale<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Though &#8220;blobs&#8221; may not sound very scientific, that is exactly how Ren and the research team described what they observed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/articles\/aa\/full_html\/2024\/03\/aa48254-23\/aa48254-23.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>in their paper<\/u><\/a>, published in the journal <em>Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics<\/em> earlier this year. Along with a variety of blobs, they spotted a mysterious L-shaped thing. The <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/james-webb-space-telescope-rocky-exoplanets-atmospheres\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Space Telescope Science Institute<\/u><\/a> in Baltimore, which runs Hubble and the <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/webb-space-telescope-first-image-targets\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>James Webb Space Telescope<\/u><\/a>, announced the findings this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So what could these things be?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have suggested at least some of the objects could be <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/satellite-galaxies\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>small orbiting galaxies<\/u><\/a> on the precipice of falling into the central black hole, which is what&#8217;s powering the quasar. All of the objects were found within 16,000 light-years of the black hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section x-data=\"window.newsletter()\" x-init=\"init()\" class=\"relative p-8 my-12 mx-auto w-full max-w-3xl border md:p-12 md:my-16 border-secondary-300\" data-ga-impression=\"\" data-ga-category=\"newsletters\" data-ga-module=\"incontent_nl_signup\" data-ga-label=\"mashablelightspeed\">\n<p>\n            Mashable Light Speed\n        <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>But that&#8217;s just an educated guess. Astronomers may be able to better identify those weird things with follow-up observations by the Webb telescope, the leading space observatory that senses light at infrared wavelengths.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"eloquent-imagery-image\">\n<div class=\"flex justify-center\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border border-gray-100\" src=\"https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/00zs921UfyTB7YpNUa7Uxen\/images-2.fill.size_2000x1328.v1733600471.webp\" alt=\"Hubble Space Telescope orbiting Earth\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1328\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/00zs921UfyTB7YpNUa7Uxen\/images-2.fill.size_800x531.v1733600471.webp 800w, https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/00zs921UfyTB7YpNUa7Uxen\/images-2.fill.size_1400x930.v1733600471.webp 1400w, https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/00zs921UfyTB7YpNUa7Uxen\/images-2.fill.size_2000x1328.v1733600471.webp 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n            <span class=\"normal-case text-gray-1000\">Astronomers used a coronograph, an instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope, to blot out the blindingly bright light of the quasar so they could study its surroundings.<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"text-gray-600 credit\">Credit: NASA \/ ESA<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Black holes are some of the most inscrutable phenomena in space. They don&#8217;t have surfaces, like a planet or star. Instead, they have a boundary called an &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov\/science\/objects\/black_holes1.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>event horizon<\/u><\/a>,&#8221; or a point of no return. If anything swoops too close, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/space-galaxy-black-hole-activation\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>it will eventually fall in<\/u><\/a>, never to escape the hole&#8217;s gravitational clutch.<\/p>\n<p>How <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/vision\/universe\/starsgalaxies\/black_hole_description.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>supermassive black holes<\/u><\/a> form is even more elusive. Astrophysicists believe these invisible giants lurk at the center of virtually all galaxies. Recent Hubble observations have <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/black-hole-found-nasa-hubble-telescope\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>bolstered the theory<\/u><\/a> that they begin in the dusty cores of starburst galaxies, where new stars are rapidly assembled, but scientists are still teasing that out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quasar 3C 273, which was the first of its kind discovered, is as luminous as 4 trillion suns or 100 times brighter than the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/milky-way-oldest-stars-universe\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Milky Way<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For Hubble, staring into the quasar 3C 273 is like looking directly into a blinding car headlight and trying to see an ant crawling on the rim around it,&#8221; according to the Space Telescope Science Institute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When astronomer Maarten Schmidt found it in 1963, it looked like a star but it was much too far away for a single star to have been the source. Scientists have since learned that quasars are relics of a much earlier time in the universe. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The nearest <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/science\/science-behind-the-discoveries\/hubble-quasars\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"noopener\">quasars<\/a> to Earth are still several hundred million light-years away, meaning they are observed now as they were hundreds of millions of years ago. That quasars aren&#8217;t found closer to home is a clue <a href=\"https:\/\/esahubble.org\/wordbank\/quasar\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"noopener\">they existed when the universe was much younger<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since Schmidt&#8217;s discovery, many other quasars have been found. Scientists continue to study them because they provide insight into the evolution of the universe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"eloquent-imagery-image\">\n<div class=\"flex justify-center\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border border-gray-100\" src=\"https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/00zs921UfyTB7YpNUa7Uxen\/images-3.fill.size_2000x1125.v1733600690.webp\" alt=\"An artist's interpretation of a quasar\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/00zs921UfyTB7YpNUa7Uxen\/images-3.fill.size_800x450.v1733600690.webp 800w, https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/00zs921UfyTB7YpNUa7Uxen\/images-3.fill.size_1400x788.v1733600690.webp 1400w, https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/00zs921UfyTB7YpNUa7Uxen\/images-3.fill.size_2000x1125.v1733600690.webp 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n            <span class=\"normal-case text-gray-1000\">A jet emerging from the quasar&#8217;s supermassive black hole seems to be speeding up the farther it travels from the source.<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"text-gray-600 credit\">Credit: NASA \/ ESA \/ J. Olmsted illustration<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In order to see the proverbial ant on a headlight, the research team used a Hubble instrument that blots out a light source, much like how a <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/solar-eclipse-2024-guide-for-path-map-glasses-times\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>solar eclipse<\/u><\/a> blocks the face of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/how-hot-is-sun-nasa\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>sun<\/u><\/a> with the <a href=\"https:\/\/helios-preview.mashable.com\/article\/nasa-moon-formation-earth\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>moon<\/u><\/a>, to reveal the quasar&#8217;s surrounding environment. The so-called coronagraph allowed the scientists to look eight times closer around the black hole than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to seeing mysterious blobs, the researchers got a better look at the 300,000 light-year-long jet of material emerging from the quasar. Their findings revealed something perhaps counterintuitive: The farther the jet got from the black hole, the faster it went.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"mx-auto max-w-7xl\">\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    var facebookPixelLoaded = false;\n    window.addEventListener('load', function(){\n        document.addEventListener('scroll', facebookPixelScript);\n        document.addEventListener('mousemove', facebookPixelScript);\n    })\n    function facebookPixelScript() {\n        if (!facebookPixelLoaded) {\n            facebookPixelLoaded = true;\n            document.removeEventListener('scroll', facebookPixelScript);\n            document.removeEventListener('mousemove', facebookPixelScript);\n            !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n                n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n                n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n                document,'script','\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('init', '1453039084979896');\n            fbq('track', \"PageView\");\n        }\n    }\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/nasa-hubble-quasar-black-hole-details-discovered\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hubble Space Telescope captured some weird, unidentified stuff in the most detailed photos ever taken of the immediate space surrounding a quasar.\u00a0 Quasars, a shortening of the term &#8220;quasi-stellar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135092\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}