“Galaxy Infinity” recently discovered can prove how superb ancient black holes are formed
A team of Astronomers have discovered a curious face in the world. The two galaxies collide with each other to form a larger structure. From the ground’s point of view, the location of the disc lying to the number eight is similar to the infinite symbol (∞).
Because of this similarity, the researchers – based at Yale and Copenhagen universities – have been dubbed the “infinite galaxy” and have described them in an article published in Astrophysical Magazine letters. Beyond its provocative form, this structure deceives scientists because of its contents: within it it can be the first direct evidence of a new primitive black hole.
The images were taken through the James Web Space Telescope and then enriched with information from the X -Chandra X -ray observatory, the most powerful X -ray telescope ever created. Light stems from this galaxy when the world was only 470 million years old – almost 13.5 billion years ago. In the dual structure of the galaxy, at least two combined black holes are observed, each in the corresponding disk (yellow dots in the image below) and an area of compressed gas at the intersection point indicates the presence of an extra object (green dot).
Scientists think that the symptoms of black hole may have observed the direct fall. Typically, black holes are formed when the stars are stabilized from fuel and collapse, but there is an alternative formation phenomenon that is astrophysically discussed – where a black hole is formed by the collapse of a giant gas cloud, without a star formed. Such a possibility has been theorized, but this type of black hole has not yet been observed.
The largest black holes in the world, super black holes, have been identified in galaxies that are only a few hundred million years after Big Bang. But what has made it possible is not yet fully understood. It is believed that many super -black holes have been created as a result of the integration of smaller black holes. But with very old old black holes, there is enough time for the first stars in the world to be in the star black holes and then integrate to huge and extraordinary size.
So some astronomers have provided alternative origin for the world’s first wonderful black holes. According to this hypothesis, black holes do not need to form a star or integration. Instead, this theory goes on, the dense masses of material that in other cases created galaxies could be compressed directly to the huge black holes. Scientists are currently investigating this scenario, though definitive evidence is still lacking.
It is possible that Infinity Galaxy will reveal clues about the possibility of this second form. Peter Van Dukum, a professor of astronomy and physics in Yale and a paper on a paper, said in a post on his university website: “During the collision, the gas in the two galaxies is shocked and compressed. This compression is enough to create a dense node that then collapsed into a black hole.” “While such accidents are rare, it is thought that intense gas density was very common in the first cosmic periods when the galaxies began to form,” he said.
Scientists also consider other spectacular options about what happens in the Galaxy Infinity. Instead of being created through direct gas collapse, that extra black hole – the green dot in the above image – can instead be the black hole signs that exit the other galaxy because “infinite” passes through it. Another scenario may actually indicate the collision of three galaxies, with the third eclipse by other larger cases.
Currently, the team says the initial results are exciting. “We cannot definitely say that we have found a black hole directly falling. But it can be said that this new data is reinforced that we are seeing a newborn black hole, while eliminating some of the competing explanations,” Van Dukum said in a blog for NASA.
This story appeared first Wired en español And translated from Spanish.
