The brightest galaxy in the universe is evaporating

The researchers discovered galaxies that are 350 billion billion times brighter than the Sun are in a state of great chaos because of the infrared beam and are disintegrating themselves.

The galaxy W2246-0526 is considered to be the "brightest universe" because almost no visible light can escape its borders. According to UPI, the team used the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array telescope (ALMA) to record the movement of interstellar matter in the galaxy. The study results are published in the Astronomical Journal Letters on December 28, 2015.

The strong light emitted from W2246-0526 is absorbed by a wall of thick edge dust and transformed into a stream of infrared rays 350 billion billion times more powerful than the Sun. This type of galaxy is called "quasar hidden".

Intense infrared light is evaporating star-forming matter in the brightest galaxy in the universe.(Artwork: Science News).

Not only unusually bright, W2246-0526 is also in the group of hot galaxies obscured by dust (Hot DOG). The average of 1 / 3,000 quasars that scientists find belongs to the Hot DOG group.

Energy of W2246-0526 emitted from the supermassive black hole in the center. Surrounding the black hole is an increasingly bulky, high-energy disk, which has dense and superheated airflows."These characteristics make the galaxy a infrared ray monster , " UPI quoted astronomer Roberto Assef, who led the research team at Diego Portales University in Chile.

"Strong infrared energy emitted from the dust layer directly and violently impacts the entire galaxy, creating high turbulence in the interstellar physical environment , " Assef said.

The team believes that after only a short time, W2246-0526 will no longer be the brightest galaxy. Superheated gas from the black hole is spreading in all directions between the stars at high speed."We found large amounts of large ionized carbon in a state of extreme turbulence throughout the galaxy, " said co-author Tanio Diaz-Santos.

Scientists liken the galaxy to a boiling water kettle and the final conclusion will vaporize all star-forming matter . "If the model continues, it is likely that W2246 will lose a large part of future gas and dust. The ALMA telescope with an unprecedented high resolution allows us to observe the object clearly and Learn the important phase in the life cycle of the galaxy, " said astronomer Manuel Aravena.