A distant galaxy browser was supposed to have a very interesting black hole, but it seems to be missing while researchers try to find the mystery.
We’ve all been upset when something isn’t where it should be, but losing something with a mass between three and 100 billion times the sun is a strange thing. This particular situation is something that NASA has discussed, and that scientists are trying to answer.
According to observations made between 1999 and 2004, the black hole in the galaxy group Abell 2261, which is about 2.7 billion light years from Earth, was expected, but something unusual seems to have happened. in a place far away. Recently, astronomers have been unable to find the black hole at the heart of the constellation.
Astronauts from the University of West Virginia used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope to find the black hole. However, it has gone missing. It is believed that there is an amazing black hole in almost every large galaxy, and the one that astronomers discovered was thought to be one of the largest on record.
As a result of the disappearing black hole, scientists have begun to think about what might have happened. The black hole may have been removed from the galaxy when it merged with another galaxy. This is called a ‘black hole recoiling’, and would have left a huge galaxy behind. There are also theories that the black hole was merged with another entity.
Scientists believe that it is possible that, as two galaxies came together, two supermassive black holes could have merged and created an even larger supermassive black hole that is now at the heart of an even larger galaxy. greater. This process has been seen between much smaller black holes before.
The third theory was presented by West Virginia University team leader Sarah Burke-Spolaor in a paper to be published in the journal American Astronomical Society. Burke-Spolaor believes that two options are possible; either it’s not just a black hole where scientists previously expected, or the black hole is present but it doesn’t emit enough X-ray radiation to show up in Chandra’s observations.
While the latter theory is not as exciting as black holes and galaxies coming together, it is still a reasonable conclusion for a strange discovery. We’re still figuring out what happened to the horrible black hole.