Discovered 'tsunami super waves' coming down from ... the universe

One of the most destructive phenomena in the universe has just been recorded by NASA's Hubble Telescope: the ghostly quasar super tsunami rips apart galaxies.

Quasar, also known as "quasar", has long been known as the brightest and most energetic "ghost star" in the universe. From a distance, it's no different from an ordinary star. But it is actually just a solid halo of matter, lying around the nucleus of young, active galaxies. Quasars are what are produced when supermassive black holes swallow a lot of matter, causing the hot air to surround it and emit intense radiation.

Graphic image depicting a quasar "tsunami" - (photo: NASA / ESA / J. Olmsted).

New findings by NASA suggest that Quasars can be even more powerful and frightening than imagined, when they gather into a stream, rather than a tsunami, not water but energy, swept through space. between the stars. This stream is not only a threat to another planet, another "Solar System" , but it is also powerful enough to tear apart something bigger: an entire galaxy, where those quasars live.

These quasars contain a series of supermassive black holes , often called astronomical "black holes", that can shine 1,000 times more than hundreds of billions of stars in its host galaxy. . The quasar "tsunami" is created when the amount of radiation emitted by starving black holes creates a deadly cosmic wind and spurs the quasars into flow.

The Quasar Hubble discovered was an astounding cosmic tsunami of incredible speed. In just 3 years, it has accelerated from 69 million km / h to 74 million km / h.

However, there's one thing you can be assured of: quasar tsunamis seem to exist only in young galaxies , in their initial stages of rage, not old galaxies like the Milky Way. contains the Earth.