Hubble Space Telescope
Midnight snack gives away giant black hole! ⚫ This sneaky black hole betrayed its presence in a newly identified tidal disruption event, where a star was ripped apart and swallowed in a spectacular burst of radiation. Using Hubble, astronomers pinpointed the location of this wandering supermassive black hole, with help from @NASAChandraXray and the NRAO Very Large Array telescope. Surprisingly, this one million-solar-mass black hole doesn’t reside at the center of its host galaxy, where supermassive black holes are typically found. In fact, at the center of the host galaxy there’s a whole other supermassive black hole weighing 100 million times the mass of the Sun! This monster black hole is just 2,600 light-years off-center from the galaxy’s central black hole. That’s just one-tenth the distance between our Sun and the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole! However, these two black holes aren’t gravitationally bound to each other, even though they coexist in the same galaxy. You can learn more about this new result at the link in @NASAHubble’s bio. Image descriptions and credits in comments. #NASA #Hubble #BlackHole #Chandra #science #astronomy #universe #astrophysics #space #telescope
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1 - This is a combined Hubble Space Telescope/ Chandra X-Ray Observatory image of distant galaxy that is host to the telltale signature of a roaming supermassive black hole. Both telescopes caught a tidal disruption event (TDE), an intense flash of radiation caused by the supermassive black hole eating a star. The TDE appears as an isolated blue-white point source of ultraviolet light, while the galaxy is colored orange in visible light. In addition, X-Ray light is captured by Chandra as a purple haze surround the TDE. Both Hubble and Chandra observations were combined to pinpoint the TDE’s location, which is offset from the center of the galaxy, which appears as a bright orange-white blob. (Science: NASA, ESA, STScI, Yuhan Yao (UC Berkeley); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)) 2 - Six-panel illustration marked “Artist's Concept”; The upper left panel shows the silhouette of a supermassive black hole that is adrift inside a galaxy. The middle upper panel shows a yellow star drifting near the black hole. The three following panels show the star being shredded in bright white concentric streamers followed by a white explosion. The bottom right panel is an external view of the galaxy showing a bright white star-like object that is the site of the explosion as viewed in X-rays and visible light. (Artwork: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI))
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