There is no denying that black holes are the most destructive force in the universe, with their light, light-weight nose wearing anything that crosses the horizon of a dangerous event.
With solemn state-of-the-art instruments and deep space probes allowing scientists to further discover and study these mysteries, it’s high time we have a true roadmap of the mastery wonder to change our star signals by being and saving ourselves the nightmare that could inadvertently get caught up in clipping clipping if we should ever go that far .
To help identify the location of sinister sites, an international team of scientists led by Leiden University in the Netherland has recently submitted a complete map identifying the locations of 25,000 black holes awesome for Astronomy & Astrophysics magazine.
With this handy new tool, astronauts and astronauts can view this document of the night sky dimmed by brilliant white lights marking each known black hole, illuminated by radio emissions of doomed material getting in and out after a close encounter.
In creating this detailed celestial map in a low-frequency radio frequency range, the astronauts participating in the project used 52 separate telescope stations with LOFAR antennas distributed throughout the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, United Kingdom, Sweden, Ireland, Latvia, and Italy. LOFAR (LOw-Frequency ARray) is a next-generation combined radio interferometer series built in the north of the Netherlands and completed back in 2012.
In total, this cosmic cartographic work required more than 256 hours of study and additional years of analysis before this remarkable map, representing just 4% of the northern part of the sky, could be made.
“This is the result of several years of work on very complex data,” the director of research and former Leiden University scientist Francesco de Gasperin said in the official press release. “We had to devise new ways to turn the radio signals into images of the skies. ”
To dial information about black hole emissions and place each candidate in its intended galaxy, researchers employed supercomputers confirmed by algorithms to correct the scattering effect of the ionosphere every four seconds.
Study co-author Reinout van Weeren from the Leiden Observatory explained that the effect is similar to trying to see the world from the bottom of a swimming pool, where surface waves affect your view. and changing brightness.
“After many years of software development, it’s great to see that this has now worked out,” said Leuben Observatory scientific director Huub Röttgering.
With just a small slice of the night sky scanned for horrible black holes, the dedicated team plans to take advantage of more of the new algorithm to continue mapping the northern skies in the future and more of their endless wonders to record.