A black hole located nearly 8000 light years from Earth has behaved in a strange way and astronomers are fascinated.
Although it was discovered in 1989, the Cygni V404 black hole attracted attention for the first time in the world in 2015 when it was brightening telescopes for two weeks while it was consumed material from a star in orbit.
All of the material was not consumed, however, part of it, overheated by the gravitational force of the black hole, was projected far into space in shiny plasma jets.
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Although such explosions are not unusual for black holes, they usually tend to emit through poles and go in the same direction.
However, a closer look at these jets revealed that they seemed to be shooting in a pattern of movement called "procession".
On Monday, in the journal Nature, James Miller-Jones and his team of researchers at the International Radioastronomy Research Center in Australia published their observations on the 2015 event and explained the strange behavior of V404 Cygni. The black hole is misaligned.
"We were amazed by what we saw in this system – it was completely unexpected," said Gregory Sivakoff, of the University of Alberta, in a statement from the University of Alberta. National Observatory of Radioastronomy.
The black hole itself is surrounded by a disc of rotating material of a width of six million kilometers, called accretion disk. As a rule, the disc should rotate on the same axis as the black hole itself, but the strange pattern of the jets shows that in the case of V404 Cygni, this is not the case.
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Robert McCall's prediction in the mid-1970s of the construction of a modular space station by NASA's space shuttle is close to what eventually happened, except that the real shuttles do not were flying one at a time.
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Ed White photographed by Jim McDivitt, commander of Gemini 4. In the first of 66 orbits, they tried unsuccessfully to go to the top floor of their Titan launcher. On McDivitt's advice, White waited for another orbit to recover from the effort of the missed rendezvous, and left Gemini for his release into the historic space on June 3, 1965.
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Dave Scott, Apollo 9 CM pilot, comes out of the hatch and tests some of the space suit systems that will be used for lunar operations. The picture was taken of Rusty Schweickart in March 1969 from the hatch of the moored LM.
Courtesy of NASA
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The mother ship "Balls Three" flies over an X-15 in 1961. Three X-15 operational were built and
performed 199 test flights between them, while they were pushing into the "envelopes" of speed and altitude and reaching the very limits of space.
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The Cape Canaveral Mercury Control Center (MCC) supervised seven manned space flights between May 1961 and March 1965, until the beginning of the Gemini era. Meanwhile, the more advanced control complex in Houston was taking shape before Apollo.
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The technicians working at the base of Alan Shepard's Mercury-Redstone 3 launcher were drowned in steam on May 5, 1961, due to an excess of oxidizing gas. The following rockets could not be as close together when refueling.
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The Rendezvous docking simulator at Langley has prepared Gemini astronauts for the strange physics of orbital flight.
Courtesy of NASA
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Before Gemini 10, Commander John Young explains to the media how his co-pilot, Michael Collins, will inspect the target Agena docking vehicle when it came out in space in 1966.
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Geological map of the US Geological Survey regarding the Tycho crater, famous for being the site of a mysterious extraterrestrial monolith in the sci-fi movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". In reality, this chaotic and rugged terrain would have been too difficult for an Apollo mission to access.
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Michael Collins, pilot of the Apollo 11 control module, inspects NASA's lunar reception lab at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, where rock samples collected by Apollo have been analyzed. Gaseous nitrogen protected the rocks from accidental corrosion in the oxygen-rich atmosphere of the Earth.
Courtesy of NASA
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NASA scientists are convinced that Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin start-up prints are as clear and distinct as when they were first shot in 1969, because the moon has neither the air nor the air. the rain to erode them.
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This misalignment was probably caused by the strength of the supernova which created the created Black Hole and which, combined with a phenomenon known as frame slip, creates the type of rotation as the wobble effect.
"This is the only mechanism we can think of that can explain the rapid precession seen in the Cygni V404," Miller-Jones said. Posed for the first time by Albert Einstein as part of his general theory of relativity, frame sliding occurs when the intense gravitational force of the black hole causes space-time around him when he turns. .
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Prof Sivakoff said, "The discovery of this astronomical first has deepened our understanding of how black holes and galaxy formation can work. That tells us a little more about this big question: "How did we get here?"