Discover huge X-ray tunnel in the universe

Using the Chandra space telescope observing with X-rays, American astronomers have discovered a tunnel of high-energy X-rays located in a galaxy of billions of light years from Earth.

Galaxy.(Photo: NASA)

This tunnel can accommodate the entire Milky Way system and is about 200 million years old. The width of the tunnel can reach 36 thousand light years and the length can reach 110 thousand light years.

This new discovery is published at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society recently and is considered by international astronomers as a new proof that the intense clash between the hot streams of internal matter and the the external X-ray of gas surrounding the supermassive black holes in the universe. This tunnel is the product left after previous clashes between the aforementioned super-giant air streams.

Observations by American astronomers show that high-energy X-rays in the tunnel may be the product of past explosions in the black hole. These rays helped clarify the history of galaxies and their relationship with tunnels.

However, astronomers concede that although the discovery of the new tunnel is an astronomical discovery of galaxies but the interaction between X-ray radio waves and hot gas streams emitted from supermassive black holes in the universe is still a mystery to science.