Discover the truth about misleading empty holes for years

A European telescope while looking for new young stars has a surprising discovery, which is a truly empty hole in space.

This space without any material is in a nebula called NGC 1999, a bright cloud of dust and gas in the constellation Orion.

The Hubble Space Telescope first captured this nebula image in December 1999. Astronomers have found a dark spot in the cloud but thought it was just a cold spot due to dust and gas, the blocks were so heavy that light could not penetrate.

A dark space within a blue spot of dust and gas (above the image) of the NGC nebula 1999 is actually an empty hole.

But new photos from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory show that the spot is really an empty space.

The telescope observed in the infrared band, allowing it to see through heavy dust and see objects inside. However, even then Herschel still only saw a black color in this space.

Astronomers believe that the hole is about 0.2 light-years wide and is made up of the episodic process of a nearby embryo called V380 Ori.

This star has a mass of 3.5 times the Sun. The team said that the newborn star is signaling its upcoming maturity by firing at extremely high poles of gas from its poles that will explode any remaining external material. from star formation.

Tom Megeath of Toledo University, Ohio, who led the research, said: 'We think the star is releasing a dipole current at a rate of hundreds of kilometers per second and creating a giant hole in the cloud. near. It is basically possible to understand these bundles of gas being shot forward and sweep away all other gases and dust. '

The telescope discovered the hole named after the 19th-century astronomer William Herschel. In his catalog of the night sky, Herschel recorded a few black spots that he thought were holes but it was actually dark clouds.

'From then on, whenever someone observes something like a dark hole in space, they all speculate it is a cloud , ' Megeath said. 'Quite funny and interesting when almost a century and a half later, the telescope called Herschel observed what people thought was the cloud in fact it was a hole'.

Source: National Geographic