It devoured a star and continues to eject fast-moving material... a black hole that fascinates scientists

 

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It devoured a star and continues to eject fast-moving material... a black hole that fascinates scientists

Scientists are monitoring the behavior of a supermassive black hole that is exhibiting highly unusual behavior after devouring a celestial object.

Using radio telescopes mainly in New Mexico and South Africa, scientists are observing the black hole at the center of a galaxy very far from our Milky Way, as it continues to eject fast-moving material after it shattered and swallowed a star that made the mistake of getting too close.

What makes this unusual is the extreme difficulty and duration of the absorption process that the black hole experiences after swallowing the celestial object.
The remaining material from the star only began to escape into space two years after it was broken into its constituent gases by the gravitational forces of the black hole, but this material has continued to escape into space for six years, which is longer than any time such a phenomenon has been observed before.

"Unprecedented brightness"

“The steady increase in the brightness of this source is unprecedented,” said Yvette Sindis, an astrophysicist at Oregon State University. “It is now about 50 times brighter than it was when it was first discovered, and it is now incredibly bright for an object appearing in radio waves. This has been going on for years, and there is no indication that it will stop. This is very unusual.”

Sindis is the lead author of the study, which was published Thursday in the Astrophysical Journal.
Black holes are incredibly dense objects with such strong gravity that not even light can escape their pull. This particular black hole is located approximately 665 million light-years from Earth. A light-year is the distance light travels in one year, equivalent to 9.5 trillion kilometers.

The black hole has a mass of about five million times the mass of the sun, making it almost identical to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, which has a mass of about four million times the mass of the sun.

The doomed star was a red dwarf with a mass about one-tenth the mass of the sun.
The question now is how long will the emission of these materials continue to intensify? Researchers predict it could peak later this year or next year.