Posted on 09/25/2018 7:29:19 AM PDT by ETL
University of Leicester’s Professor Ken Pounds and co-authors report the detection of matter falling into a black hole at 30% of the speed of light
Using data from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory, Professor Pounds and colleagues looked at X-ray spectra from PG1211+143, a Seyfert galaxy (characterized by a very bright AGN resulting from the presence of the massive black hole at its nucleus) located in the constellation Coma Berenices, about one billion light-years away.
The team found the spectra to be strongly red-shifted, showing the observed matter to be falling into PG1211+143’s black hole at the enormous speed of 30% of the speed of light, or around 62,000 miles per second (100,000 km per second).
The gas has almost no rotation around the black hole, and is detected extremely close to it in astronomical terms, at a distance of only 20 times the black hole’s size (its event horizon, the boundary of the region where escape is no longer possible).
“The galaxy we were observing with XMM-Newton has a 40-million-solar-mass black hole which is very bright and evidently well fed,” Professor Pounds said.
“Indeed some 15 years ago we detected a powerful wind indicating the black hole was being over-fed.
While such winds are now found in many active galaxies, PG1211+143 has now yielded another ‘first,’ with the detection of matter plunging directly into the black hole itself.”
“We were able to follow an Earth-sized clump of matter for about a day, as it was pulled towards the black hole, accelerating to a third of the velocity of light before being swallowed up by the hole.”
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I believe Seyfert galaxy PG1211+143 might be the one just above the + sign in PG1211+143 (below).
I looked and could not find a clear-cut image of it.
I'm wondering if some of the matter falling into that remote black hole might be Hillary's "missing" e-mails, and/or her "lost" Rose Law Firm billing records.
“The galaxy we were observing with XMM-Newton has a 40-million-solar-mass black hole which is very bright and evidently well fed,” Professor Pounds said.
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I am so ashamed that I thought of Oprah. Then I thought of pound cake.
or Obozo’s birth certificate.................
my car keys
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Based upon the high mass cited in the article, that just might be enough to cover Hillary.
The Palomino.
In contrast, our own Milky Way Galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center estimated at 3 million solar masses.
I wonder if we’ll ever be able to make industrial use of black holes.
I wouldn’t bet on it. The odds would be “astronomical”.
:)
You know how you put a pair of socks into the dryer, but only one comes out?
Ummm, how does one overfeed a black hole?
Ummm, how does one overfeed a black hole?
Probably too much matter falling in at the same time.
An overfed Black hole? Will it get obese? Develop diabetes? Lose it's appetite?
Can we kill black holes by overfeeding them?
Would it eat Michelle's school lunches?
Sometimes when I’m “overfed”, I develop a “powerful wind” myself.
Who you gonna call?
Black Hole Rooter, that's the name, wash your Galaxies down the drain!
Depending upon what I eat, I get the winds powerfully as well...
I thought the Coma Cluster was what you called the group of die hards that all black out in the living room at the end of a party.
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