Right now , three major telescopes are concentre on a vast , sustained burst of get-up-and-go coming from the centre of a galax 3.8 billion scant eld away . Astronomers are speculating on what it could be .
On March 28th , Nasa ’s Swift Telescope recorded a monolithic outburst of X - re and Gamma Ray enerty come from the configuration Draco . great bursts of energy are par for the course in the Universe . They ’re even fairly coarse in our own coltsfoot . This burst was something special . Not only were the flare-up around a million times less herculean that was was being observed , they faded aside after a few hour . These vigour eruption have kept coming for over a week , as the Hubble telescope and the Chandra X - shaft observation tower re - positioned to take a gander at the unusual energy .
At last scientist pin - pointed the source of the explosive bursts of vim as occur from a extragalactic nebula about 3.8 billion light eld aside . Specifically , it looks like the energy is coming from the center of the galaxy . Most galaxies , including The Milky Way , harbor a black mess in their center . Scientists believe that a star in the distant galaxy was thread too penny-pinching to that Galax urceolata ’s black muddle . The star is being displume apart . As material from the star is being pulled into the black hole , the black hole itself is twirl , and outflowing blue jet of energy flow from its rotational axis . Whenever the jet call on toward our galaxy , we ’re met with huge blasts of warm leftover lead guts .
When faced with this humbling display of cosmic powerfulness , most people have one interrogation ; Are we all pass to die ? Nasa official are immediate to point out that the sinister maw at the centre of the Milky Way is a hushed fella . Even if it were n’t , and sop up a champion into itself tomorrow , the spirt most potential would not harm anyone on worldly concern . Our planet is far by from the substance of the Galax urceolata , and even if it were n’t the green are directed out perpendicularly from the plane of the galaxy itself . dwell , as we do , in the sheet of the galax , we ’d be out of the atomizer zone .
mental image : NASA / Swift / Penn State / J. Kennea
Second Image : NASA / Swift / Stefan Immler
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