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Black Hole Singing

Our galxay is in develpment

By Nada Al-sana'aniPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
Black Hole Singing
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Scientists have recently discovered an unsettling Echo emanating from the main black hole in our galaxy. It has high and low notes and sounds fairly unearthly, but it turns out that's not always the case. Should we sound the alarm? Whatever the bell siren Sagittarius Black holes are the true Monsters of our universe, devouring anything foolish enough to approach one. If a massive black star runs out of star fuel, it may become extremely dense and buckle under its own weight, collapsing inward and accelerating space time. A star is our own supermassive black hole, sitting right in the center of the Milky Way galaxy where we live . We really can't see black holes since they devour everything even light, but we can still determine where they are thanks to the existence of accretion discs. Want an explanation? Well picture a black hole the starving thing consumes all the matter that Strays Too Close. As a result, the gravitational field of this new thing becomes so strong that nothing can escape it not even light, and so goes a black hole. We cannot see a black hole itself, but we can see the accretion disc surrounding it. It happens as follows: first the material is superheated, and then the black hole squeezes it into a superheated disc of blazing gas. The black hole also bends light around it, creating a circular shadow . The most massive black holes have bright bands that can outshine millions of galaxies inside this disc of glowing material, which energizes it and causes the material to glow intensely. When particles rub against one another inside this disc of glowing material, it slows them down and sends them directly toward the black holes. Horizon Event Let's return to Sagittarius now. If there was no friction, the material would have been encircling the black hole for billions of years like planets were around their stars. Since our Central black hole is now much less bright than other black holes in the centers of galaxies that astronomers have discovered . There isn't any active chewing going on around hole. It's unclear what it is, but it appears to be catching some z's. NASA's ixb telescope hasn't found any evidence to support this claim. Instead, it suggests that the supposedly sleeping giant woke up relatively recently, about 200 years ago. Sagittarius It sounds oppressive, but the closest thing to a supermassive black hole is a star, and it's only around 25 000 light years from Earth. So when researchers discovered relatively recent x-ray emissions from enormous clouds of gas nearby, they were pleasantly surprised The most intriguing aspect of this discovery was how bright these clouds were. Most cosmic clouds, known as molecular clouds, are dark and cold with very faint x-ray signatures, but that wasn't the case with this discovery. Of course, there are a few theories regarding this phenomenon, one of which is that these giant molecular clouds are shining so brightly because they just echo the black hole . This light must have been a short-lived, incredibly bright flare that occurred either directly at or very close to the constellation Sagittarius. It happened in the beginning of the 19th century, and the most plausible reason for it is the black hole suddenly consuming a significant portion of the material surrounding it. It was probably an amazing sight to witness because whirlpools of particles were driven toward the black holes. The black hole began consuming all of this material at the Event Horizon, also known as the point of no return, which produced spectacular bursts of X-ray light and Echoes that we were able to translate into sound waves here on Earth. This discovery is essential for comprehending the processes taking place to and inside the black hole . In the vicinity of our supermassive black hole, we might also determine what physical processes might emerge. Sagittarius Supermassive black holes are the biggest black holes in the universe; their mass can range from thousands to millions to billions of times that of our sun. Thankfully, two such giants have recently been discovered with the aid of the Atacama Large Millimeter Submillimeter Array of Telescopes, also known as Alma. Near the heart of the coalescing galaxy, two enormous black holes were growing side by side. It appears that these black holes encountered one another when their host galaxies collided; one of the black holes is around 200 million times larger than the other . As time passes, these black holes will start to circle each other and eventually they will collide creating one probably even bigger black hole interestingly such immense merges are more common for distant galaxies that make up the universe. This discovery may mean that black hole binaries like this one are much more common than we previously thought. If pairs of black holes are so common, it can make it easier for us to study gravitational waves, also known as ripples in space-time, which occur when black holes merge. Before, experts believed that such Galaxy mergers didn't really happen in our neighborhood. Collide Even though it may take the freshly discovered pair of black holes several hundred million years to collide, by watching their behavior, scientists can determine how many binary black holes are on the verge of doing so. Have you heard that we might be living in a black hole? This may help us understand what will happen when our home galaxy, the Milky Way, collides with the Andromeda galaxy in around 4.5 billion years. Oh, I can't wait. I'm not joking, it's really scary. However, what if one black hole has already swallowed us long ago? Surprisingly, some physicists find this theory to be somewhat plausible. For instance, Dr. Nicodem Poplovsky, a theoretical physicist from Indiana University, claims that everything a black hole swallows may turn into a new universe either inside the hole or on the other side of it. Who knows, maybe before it was sucked into a black hole, our universe was quite a different place. The theory of white holes is closely related to the previous hypothesis, however black holes consume everything in its path, preventing even light from escaping. A white hole is a hypothetical region of space-time that nothing can enter from the outside but light and matter can escape from, in contrast to a black hole, which is a hypothetical area of space-time that you can only enter from the outside but can't escape from afterward. ....,..

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