Ant - One of the rarest events in the universe has been witnessed by scientists for the first time. Quoted from the Daily Mail, December 2, 2011, a gigantic black hole (super massive black holes) are known to have swallowed a star. This phenomenon is itself typically occur once every hundred million years in a galaxy.
As is known, most galaxies have black holes that suck up large space that is everything nearby with a very strong gravitational force.
For the first time, scientists had the opportunity to witness the phenomenon after the Swift telescope detected a number of NASA's X-ray bursts from quiet areas in the sky.
The team of researchers from Pennsylvania State University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said such bursts are probably the remnants of stars that is sucked into a black hole is situated at a distance of 3.9 billion light years from Earth.
"Chemical analysis of bursts of ultraviolet light showed that the material came from being sucked into a black hole measuring one million times the size of our sun," said David Burrows, an astronomer at the University of Pennsylvania State University.
Black hole or commonly called the black hole is believed to be more powerful than before because of the additional mass of the star absorption. Absorption makes black holes grow bigger to become a super-massive black holes. Super-massive black holes can reach sizes of up to billions of solar masses.
For comparison, the planet earth has the size 1/332.950 of solar masses. Video black hole sucking the middle of a star that was captured by NASA's Swift satellite can be listened to on the following link.
As is known, most galaxies have black holes that suck up large space that is everything nearby with a very strong gravitational force.
For the first time, scientists had the opportunity to witness the phenomenon after the Swift telescope detected a number of NASA's X-ray bursts from quiet areas in the sky.
The team of researchers from Pennsylvania State University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said such bursts are probably the remnants of stars that is sucked into a black hole is situated at a distance of 3.9 billion light years from Earth.
"Chemical analysis of bursts of ultraviolet light showed that the material came from being sucked into a black hole measuring one million times the size of our sun," said David Burrows, an astronomer at the University of Pennsylvania State University.
Black hole or commonly called the black hole is believed to be more powerful than before because of the additional mass of the star absorption. Absorption makes black holes grow bigger to become a super-massive black holes. Super-massive black holes can reach sizes of up to billions of solar masses.
For comparison, the planet earth has the size 1/332.950 of solar masses. Video black hole sucking the middle of a star that was captured by NASA's Swift satellite can be listened to on the following link.
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