As one star was pulled into the black hole, the other was whipped into frenzy and
flung out of the galaxy.
Not exact matches
The researchers, including Caltech Professor
of Physics Jamie Bock and Caltech Senior Postdoctoral Fellow Michael Zemcov, say that the best explanation is that the cosmic light — described in a paper published November 7 in the journal Science — originates from stars that were stripped away from their parent
galaxies and
flung out into space as those
galaxies collided and merged with other
galaxies.
The most powerful jets, called quasars, arise when black holes weighing as much as billions
of suns
fling infalling matter and energy back
out into the
galaxy, heating up loads
of dust and gas and creating blinding beams
of energy.
Jets are narrow streams
of gas that emergefrom the cores
of some
galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent thespeed
of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - yearsinto intergalactic space before fanning
out into broad, luminous lobes.How might a black - hole whirlpool generate such a pair
of waterspouts?Swirling bundles
of magnetic field lines,
flinging particles outwardfrom the poles
of the hole, provide a natural explanation.
MCG +12 -02-001 consists
of a pair
of galaxies visibly affected by gravitational interaction as material is
flung out in opposite directions (Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)- ESA / Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University
of Virginia, Charlottesville / NRAO / Stony Brook University)-RRB-