MASSIVE MISSING BLACK HOLE

Finding a supermassive black hole

that's billions of times the mass of our sun

might not be as easy as we thought. In fact,

it might not even be possible.

Like with the case of a missing black hole,

there's one big problem:

this giant space phenomenon doesn't seem to exist.

But let's not give up yet—

we can try to find it in the Galaxy cluster Abel 2261,

where it supposedly is located.

The big issue is that

we don't have a clear idea of where it is.

now supermassive black holes are Mega

monsters churning slowly at the center

of their home galaxies they gather

tremendous clouds of gas and dust around

them which makes them swell up the sizes

the human mind can't begin to imagine if

a supermassive black hole like the one

that dwells at the center of our home

Milky Way galaxy moved even a little bit

closer to our solar system we'd be

doomed the distance between this huge

thing and Earth could be several dozens

of light years and still it would wreak

havoc on our planet Earth along with

other things making up the solar system

would be tugged into the black hole's

orbit and doomed to spin around it for

eternity or longer hey who knows right

so it's good that such black holes stay

away from us at the moment

so let's see what happened to that

runaway supermassive black hole from

that gigantic cluster of galaxies around

2.7 billion years away from our planet

scientists have been looking for it with

the help of NASA's Chandra x-ray

Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope

but so far no resolve the main problem

with finding a black hole is that it's

uh well black and spaces you guessed it

black too so there's no contrast

whatsoever that could help astronomers

spot the hole but scientists haven't

given up yet after all they have a lot

of other Technologies to find black

holes small and big in the vastness of

space

some of these methods involve watching

the Stars orbiting black holes sometimes

it's a fake gravitational wave signal

which is produced when two black holes

Collide but the most reliable technique

is watching dust and gas falling to

their Doom

the thing is black holes are space

objects with insane gravity so regions

of space surrounding them are usually a

bit chaotic gas and dust getting pulled

into the bottomless Abyss compressing

and heating up in the process it

releases a flood of X-ray radiation so

astronomers look for extremely bright

x-ray sources in the universe chances

are those are the last gasps of giant

clumps of material before they disappear

into a black hole then why can't

scientists find such x-ray signatures

left by the black hole in able 2261.

the most mysterious things about its

disappearance is that radio telescopes

have spotted some signs of massive

plumes of superheated material launched

at one point within the last 50 million

years these plumes were most likely

caused by a large black hole which is

nowhere to be found these days

so at the moment we can only play a

guessing game maybe two medium-sized

black holes collided pushing the newly

merged giant out of the center of the

Galaxy the observations of the stars in

that Galaxy have shown a clump of dense

material a few thousand light years away

from the Galaxy's core maybe it's the

runaway black hole but disappointingly

no x-ray signals are coming from that

clump or the hall might still be there

in its rightful place but it's you know

slumbering if it doesn't get a fresh

supply of gas and dust it has nothing to

feed on as a result it can't release a

flood of x-rays but again the answer do

not disturb the black hole is sleeping

now isn't very satisfying why isn't it

getting its base food what happened 50

million years ago what does that clump

of material speeding away from the

Galaxy Center so many questions and no

answer so far

let me know what black holes look like

well kinda it's actually the shadow of a

black hole's Event Horizon visible

against the glowing superheated material

falling inside the hole the first ever

mug shot of a black hole appeared in

2019 but the data for its creation was

collected in 2017. it took an

international team consisting of more

than 200 astronomers two years to

assemble the image

we can admire this amazing space

phenomenon thanks to a vast Global

Network of telescopes called The Event

Horizon telescope collaboration or

simply EHT why such a name the thing is

that the event horizon is a point of no

return on the outskirts of a black hole

when something for example matter

radiation or Light reaches this boundary

there is no way for it to escape the

black hole's clutches

anyway to capture that very first image

of a black hole scientists created a

virtual telescope that turned out as big

as our planet by combining the power of

eight powerful radio telescopes but it

wasn't an easy feat the researchers had

to simultaneously point the telescopes

in a meticulously planned order with the

help of precise atomic clock set on each

telescope plots to keep the chances of

rain in bad weather to a minimum they

even constructed the telescopes in super

dry regions such as the Atacama Desert

in Chile and the South Pole on each

observation day the telescope gathers

roughly 350 terabytes of data that's 10

times the amount of data collected every

day at the Large Hadron Collider

but let's speak more about black holes

themselves there are Stellar black holes

smaller but even more dangerous than

their supermassive Piers they appear

when stars that have run out of their

star food fall into themselves if a star

used to be big enough it keeps

compressing and compressing some more

and voila a baby Stellar black hole is

born but even if I call such a hole a

small one it's still five to several

tens of times heavier than the Sun

unlike their massive siblings

hypothetical many black holes could be

really tiny not bigger than an atom even

so just one minuscule thing would have

the mass of a thousand SUVs one Theory

claims tons of micro black holes could

have been created right after the big

bang and the beginning of the universe

some scientists even go as far as to say

that a couple mini black holes pass

through our planet every day

there is a supermassive black hole smack

dab in the middle of our galaxy The

Milky Way its name is Sagittarius A star

and it's 4.3 million times as heavy as

the sun and nope we aren't going to be

pulled into this hole it's more than 26

000 light years from Earth too far to

have any influence on our planet by the

way recently astronomers have discovered

that this supermassive black hole might

be leaking if it's true it probably

means that Sagittarius A star isn't a

sleeping giant as previously thought it

might still be active and the leakage

recorded by scientists may be the whole

hiccuping while swallowing clouds of gas

maybe we should burp this baby

if you ever find yourself near a black

hole get ready that time will

significantly slow down it may work for

you if you aren't eager to grow older

just don't let yourself be tugged beyond

the point of no return

another danger of hanging around a black

hole is that it might start behaving

like a massive Galactic volcano from

time to time black holes flare up but

instead of spewing lava they produce

enormous amounts of energy and it makes

gaping holes in the surrounding material

and gas

short time ago scientists discovered one

of the largest craters in the universe

radio and x-ray telescopes detected a

supermassive black hole that through a

temper tantrum many many years ago it

happened in a galaxy cluster about 390

million light years away from Earth the

crater Left Behind which was actually a

hole punched in the cluster's hot gas

could fit 15 Milky Way galaxies.