If you have ever wondered the shape of the black hole, but you could not imagine it mentally, then there is no need for that anymore, as NASA announced, in cooperation with the “Event Horizon Telescope“, about the first direct picture of a black hole in history.
The institutions revealed that the black hole known as “M87“, which is the same that became an astronomical symbol in 2019, is ranging at an amazing speed of 80% of the cosmic limit, and starts at a speed of up to 240,000 km per second.
When we say that the black hole rotates at a speed of 80% of the cosmic limit, we are talking about the speed that exceeds the ability of the human mind to absorb; As if it is a galaxy cycle that swallows everything that approaches it … and describes the astronomical physicist, Ruth Daily, from Pennsylvania State University, saying: “It is not just a huge bloc, but a force that reshapes everything around it.”
This speed of rotation makes “M87” a clearer example of how the extreme gravity is the “spacetime” tissue, something that was not understood by this clarity before.
This black hole is surprised by scientists for other reasons as well … because of the strength of the plasma streams that it launches and monitors using NASA telescopes, and consists of particles that move quickly approximately the speed of light, which makes them directly affect the formation of galaxies.
Imagine a black hole that rotates more quickly, swallows more material, and this rotation energy turns into a way to continue collecting the material .. The more accelerated, the more his ability to “devour” its surroundings.
24 billion miles
These are not the only amazing numbers; The diameter of this black hole is about 38.9 billion km, which is approximately 3000 times the diameter of the Earth, and several times greater than Pluto.
The “M87” contains the equivalent of 6.5 billion solar masses, and it has the ability to distort “spacetime” in any direction, which means that, through its swallowing of dust, it prevents the formation of new stars quickly, and maintains a relative thermal balance in its galaxy.
Monitor
The secret in monitoring black holes lies in monitoring what is happening around them, in the case of “M87”, scientists studied the hole through the energy jets he ejaculates, and the glow resulting from the material before it is immediately swallowed …
Although it does not make a light, NASA telescopes, using techniques such as infrared, were able to see it from our planet, using the “horizon of the event”, which is a global network linking radio telescopes that extend from Hawaii to the Antarctic, and when they coincide, it creates accuracy equivalent to the accuracy of a telescope the size of the earth, capable of photographing the “shadow” of the black hole and monitoring the fluctuations in the light surrounding it During parts of a thousand seconds.
While the “event horizon” picks up radio frequencies, the “James Web” infrared telescope is recorded from the surrounding dusty areas, and the combination of these multi -lengths of scientists allows scientists to reinstalize temperatures and speeds and the feeding plasma formula for the black hole.
