As if black holes weren’t mysterious enough, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a supermassive black hole at the heart of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away.
The conundrum is that the disk shouldn’t be there, based on current astronomical theories. However, the unexpected presence of a disk so close to a black hole offers a unique opportunity to test Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity. General relativity describes gravity as the curvature of space and special relativity describes the relationship between time and space.
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OMG! 130 million light years away??! Apart from the whole unexplained thin disk whirring around a black hole thing being a really cool that is…
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VERY interesting… I wonder if it’s the start or end of a pulsar, or maybe the black hole was photographed eating the remains of it’s galaxy?
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It’s hard to say, but it’s a pretty incredible thing. Imagine the size of a black hole that eats its galaxy… scary.
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You know my obsession with space well!!😆
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I do indeed… I will keep teasing it 😄
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😯😯😯😯This is sooooooo cool!!!
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I thought you would like it :-)))
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