Dangerous deadly plasma flows from the black hole

British scientists explore the causes and ways of black holes spewing deadly plasma and radiation.

Black holes sometimes fire giant plasma currents into the intergalactic space. This phenomenon helps us to know that black holes really exist, according to Seeker. Because astronomers cannot see activity inside the black hole, they have not previously found the cause of the formation of these plasma currents.

Binary black hole system V404 Cygni extracts a bright plasma flow when swallowing a star near it.(Photo: NASA).

In a study published in Nature Astronomy on October 30, scientists at the University of Southampton, England, analyzed data on binary black hole observations V404 Cygni in 2015 of ULTRACAM cameras at the Observatory. William Herschel in La Palma, Spain and NuSTAR space telescope. They discovered new clues about the shape of plasma currents as well as how they had enough energy to radiate at multiple wavelengths, like two light columns firing along the rotating axis of a black hole.

consists of a slightly smaller star than the Sun. It orbits another black hole 10 times more massive in just 6.5 days. The strong gravitational pull of two black holes sucking up the material of a nearby star. This amount of material goes to the plasma plate around the black hole and is heated to millions of degrees Celsius. When the temperature and magnetic fields change, the matter particles in the plasma disk are released to form a light column that escapes the hole. black.

"The event we witnessed in 2015 was a powerful radiation explosion from the V404 Cygni system. It made scientists around the world work together to discover the cause of the phenomenon. " , said Poshak Gandhi, a member of the research team.

The plasma flow from the black hole produces a large amount of radiation, especially high-energy X-rays and gamma rays, which can destroy anything on their path.

"The plasma plate revolves around a black hole with a temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees or more, hot enough to emit X-rays that we see from NuSTAR. Most of this matter falls into a black hole, but some escape. because the strong magnetic field forms plasma currents , " Gandhi said.