This may be the largest black hole ever discovered
Have identified astronomers identified What can be a super new black hole, and estimated to be 36 billion times the sun, about 10,000 times the black hole mass at the center of the Milky Way. This makes it among the largest objects ever identified.
The finding, published in the monthly announcement of the Royal Astronomy Association, was built by researchers from the Cosmology and Gravity Institute at the University of Portsmouth in England in collaboration with the Federal University of Rio Grand in Brazil. Scientists have placed the symptoms of the new Black Hole in a gravitational lens known as the “cosmic horsepower” below. A gravitational lens occurs when the gravity of a huge object, such as the galaxy, is so great that it bends the light and time near it and distort the light from behind.
The cosmic horse was discovered in 2007 by the Hubble Telescope. The Galaxy LRG 3-757 is located at its center, while the blue blue shot around this object is distorted yellow from another galaxy. The 3-757 LRG is one of the largest galaxies ever observed by astronomers and is 100 times as high as 5.6 billion light-years away from Earth.
Thanks to this brilliant structure, astronomers have been able to calculate the mass of black hole, probably located at the center of LRG 3-757 (while not proven, it is thought to have large galaxies in their center). Although there are no direct observations about this black hole, measuring the movement of light in the ring and the speed of the stars in the interior of the galaxy is compatible with the presence of an extraordinary black hole. “By combining these two measurements, we can be fully confident that the black hole is real,” said Thomas Colt, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth.
Colt also shows that a black hole of such ratios can only originate from the integration of two extraordinary black holes caused by the collision of galaxies. Astronomers are still discussing whether this common fate of our galaxy will be the Milky Way and Andromeda neighbor.
What about the tone 618 and the like?
Every astronomy enthusiast knows that the largest object in the world so far is potentially 618. According to the most extensive estimates, the black hole has a mass of 66 billion sun, almost twice as much as the cosmic horse.
However, scientists are cautious about tagging the Ton 618 as the largest object ever seen. With more than 10 billion light -years, its host galaxy and the objects around it are not visible in detail. What is well known about it is its lighting analysis and the theoretical models that allow us to estimate its size. Uncertainty is very high to consider it the largest known black hole.
In contrast, Portsmouth researchers argue that the black hole of the horse, unlike distant holes, offers almost myths such as ton 618.
This story appeared first Wired en español And translated from Spanish.
