An unprecedented discovery reported by the US space agency (NASA) showed that a “massive black hole” is hurtling through space at extreme speed, leaving behind a chain of stars 200,000 light-years away.
According to the “AFP” agency, quoting “NASA”, the mass of this black hole exceeds twenty million times the size of the sun, and it flows into space and collides with the clouds of gas that it encounters in front of it, and due to the force of the hole’s movement, the source explains, the gas later turns into a chain of stars, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spotted it.
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The researchers believe that it is possible that the temperature of the gas rose due to the collision of the black hole with it, and then it cools down following the hole passed, which leads to the emergence of stars.
Scientists describe this hole as a “celestial monster”, and believe that it “comes from a huge group of three galaxies.”
According to their theory, “two galaxies may have merged regarding 50 million years ago, causing two massive black holes to rotate around each other, but a third galaxy with its own black hole collided with this group, which led to the creation of an unstable and chaotic trio, which led to the expulsion of One of the black holes at great speed, and this hole, which was monitored by “Hubble”, can travel the distance between the Earth and the Moon in just 14 minutes.
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The researchers who made this discovery say that it “does not represent a threat to humanity, as what was discovered happened in space a long time ago when the universe was half its current age,” and that “the reason behind seeing this phenomenon now is that light took time.” long time to get to us.”
NASA stated that this hole, the likes of which had not been observed before, may not be the only one in the universe.
The new “Nancy Grace Roman” space telescope, “scheduled to be launched during the current decade, is supposed to provide a broader view of space, and may discover more star trails that are an indication of the presence of one of these giant holes,” according to a report reported by the French Agency, today, Saturday.
