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A telescope boarded the International Space Station spotted the signs of a black hole "devouring" a star.
After the detection in March of last year, the images were badyzed by astronomers and the results were published Wednesday (9).
baptized MAXI J1820 + 070 the black hole is relatively close to Earth – 10,000 light years from here.
After badyzing the material, according to "BBC Brazil", the scientists concluded that it was a very interesting phenomenon: a black hole observed in the middle of an explosion , an extreme phase in which it emits bursts of energy absorbing a gigantic pile of gas and dust from a nearby star.
Astronomer Erin Kara The University of Maryland and lead author of the discovery explained:
Several million black holes exist in our galaxy. We only see them when they are in a binary system with another star, a normal star like our sun. Black holes can pull material from the surface of the star, accumulating material, little by little, in the form of a disc – called accretion disk – around it.
And then:
an avalanche of this stellar material falls into the black hole, creating tremendous energy and radiation, in the form of an X-ray jet coming from the region very close to the black hole called crown. We now have new results on the spatial extent and evolution of the crown and disk during an explosion.
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