Posted on Mar 11, 2020
APOD: 2020 March 11 - An Extreme Black Hole Outburst
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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "An Extreme Black Hole Outburst." If you've done any follow-up research on the physics of black holes, you know they periodically emit tremendous jets of energy along their axis of rotation. If Earth was a black hole, these jets would be ejected from our North and South Pole. The energy can be of any form, but is typically detected from Earth in the form of either x-ray or radio waves.
Now to today's APOD. Using data from the Chandra (x-ray) and Giant Metrewave Radio Telescopes, scientists found an area in the constellation Ophiuchus where x-ray and radio wave imagery mirrored each other. In other words, some force created a cavity in a matrix of prevailing hot gas and filled that void with radio energy. The distance is some 390 million light years from Earth. The force required to do this (when observed from this distance) is larger than 10 billion supernovae explosions. The only thing known to have that kind of potential is an energy jet from a super massive black hole.
A supporting video (3:24) to today's APOD is at the link below. It's worth a look if you've got the time. And if you enjoy trying to wrap your mind around things too big for us to comprehend.
https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2020/ophiuchus/ophiuchus_BU.mp4
Now to today's APOD. Using data from the Chandra (x-ray) and Giant Metrewave Radio Telescopes, scientists found an area in the constellation Ophiuchus where x-ray and radio wave imagery mirrored each other. In other words, some force created a cavity in a matrix of prevailing hot gas and filled that void with radio energy. The distance is some 390 million light years from Earth. The force required to do this (when observed from this distance) is larger than 10 billion supernovae explosions. The only thing known to have that kind of potential is an energy jet from a super massive black hole.
A supporting video (3:24) to today's APOD is at the link below. It's worth a look if you've got the time. And if you enjoy trying to wrap your mind around things too big for us to comprehend.
https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2020/ophiuchus/ophiuchus_BU.mp4
APOD: 2020 March 11 - An Extreme Black Hole Outburst
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Very cool- morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price
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Muse - Supermassive Black Hole [Official Music Video]
Watch the music video for "Supermassive Black Hole" now! Get Muse's album BLACK HOLES & REVELATIONS here: http://smarturl.it/getmuseblackholes http://muse.mu...
Thank you, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Wednesday, March 11, 2020 entitled "An Extreme Black Hole Outburst."
Image: An Extreme Black Hole Outburst - Image Credit - X-ray - Chandra: NASA-CXC-NRL-S. Giacintucci, et al., XMM-Newton - ESA-XMM-Newton; Radio - NCRA/TIFR/GMRT; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF; Text: Michael F. Corcoran (NASA, Catholic U., HEAPOW)
"Explanation: Astronomers believe they have now found the most powerful example of a black hole outburst yet seen in our Universe. The composite, false-color featured image is of a cluster of galaxies in the constellation of Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer. The composite includes X-ray images (from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton) in purple, and a radio image (from India's Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope) in blue (along with an infrared image of the galaxies and stars in the field in white for good measure). The dashed line marks the border of a cavity blown out by the supermassive black hole which lurks at the center of the galaxy marked by the cross. Radio emission fills this cavity. This big blowout is believed to be due to the black hole eating too much and experiencing a transient bout of "black hole nausea", which resulted in the ejection of a powerful radio jet blasting into intergalactic space. The amount of energy needed to blow this cavity is equivalent to about 10 billion supernova explosions."
Tomorrow's picture: boostback bur
Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for mentioning me.
Here is a colorful music video :-)
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole [Official Music Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsp3_a-PMTw
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Image: An Extreme Black Hole Outburst - Image Credit - X-ray - Chandra: NASA-CXC-NRL-S. Giacintucci, et al., XMM-Newton - ESA-XMM-Newton; Radio - NCRA/TIFR/GMRT; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF; Text: Michael F. Corcoran (NASA, Catholic U., HEAPOW)
"Explanation: Astronomers believe they have now found the most powerful example of a black hole outburst yet seen in our Universe. The composite, false-color featured image is of a cluster of galaxies in the constellation of Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer. The composite includes X-ray images (from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton) in purple, and a radio image (from India's Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope) in blue (along with an infrared image of the galaxies and stars in the field in white for good measure). The dashed line marks the border of a cavity blown out by the supermassive black hole which lurks at the center of the galaxy marked by the cross. Radio emission fills this cavity. This big blowout is believed to be due to the black hole eating too much and experiencing a transient bout of "black hole nausea", which resulted in the ejection of a powerful radio jet blasting into intergalactic space. The amount of energy needed to blow this cavity is equivalent to about 10 billion supernova explosions."
Tomorrow's picture: boostback bur
Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for mentioning me.
Here is a colorful music video :-)
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole [Official Music Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsp3_a-PMTw
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