Astronomers identified What can be a novel super -massive black hole, and with an estimated mass of 36 billion times in the sun has about 10,000 times a mass of a black hole in the middle of the Milky Way. It would be one of the most massive objects ever detected.
Discovery, published in Monthly notification of the Royal Astronomical SocietyIt was made by scientists from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth in Great Britain in cooperation with the Federal University of Rio Grande in Brazil. Scientists have located signs of the novel supermassive black hole in the gravitational lens known as “Space Podkowa”, in the photo below. AND gravitational lens It occurs when the heaviness of a massive object, such as the galaxy, is so great that it bends the airy and time that passes nearby, distorting the airy traveling in the back.
The cosmic horse was discovered by Hubble Telescope in 2007. The Galaxy LRG 3-757 is located in the middle, while the shape of the blue horseshoe surrounding this yellow object in yellow is distorted airy emitted from another galaxy outside it. LRG 3-757 is one of the most massive galaxies that have ever been observed by astronomers, having a mass 100 times greater than the Milky Way, and there is about 5.6 billion airy years from Earth.
Thanks to this glowing structure, astronomers were able to calculate the mass of the black hole, which probably lies in the middle of LRG 3-757 (although it has not been proven that gigantic galaxies have a black hole in their center). Although there is no direct observation of this black hole, the measurements of the airy of airy in the ring and the speed of stars in the internal areas of the galaxy are in line with the presence of an ultra -mass black hole. “Combining these two measurements, we can be completely sure that the black hole is real,” said Thomas Collett, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth, said in press statement.
Collett also suggests that a black hole with such proportions could only result from the merger of two supermassive black holes resulting from the collision of galaxy. Astronomers are They are still debating Will it be a common fate of our galaxy, a milky way and neighboring Andromeda.
What about the ton 618 and the like?
Every astronomy knows that the most massive object found in the universe is potentially potentially Tons 618. According to the most widespread estimates, this black hole has a mass equivalent to 66 billion sun, almost twice as much as the cosmic horseshoe.
However, scientists are careful in labeling tons 618 as the most massive object he has ever seen. By located over 10 billion airy years, the host galaxy and surrounding objects cannot be followed in detail. What is not known comes from the analysis of his clarity and theoretical models that allow us to estimate its size. Uncertainty is too high to consider it as the most massive black hole.
On the other hand, scientists from Portsmouth say that the cosmic black hole hole offers greater observation certainty, unlike distant, almost mythological holes, such as tonnes 618. As they claim, their discovery can represent the most massive black hole confirmed so far.
This story originally appeared Wired in Spanish and was translated from Spanish.