Witness the 'meal' of the super black hole

The Herschel Space Telescope has caused a great surprise for astronomers, when observing the extremely hot air being sucked into a black hole in the center of our Milky Way, the UPI leads homes. American science said.

"The black hole seems to be swallowing the air," said Paul Goldsmith, a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (located in Pasadena, California) of the US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), "This is only Show us how super black holes develop ".

The figure depicts the Milky Way and its center with dusty, cloudy clouds of gas
strong observation while being sucked into the super black hole, creating an extremely high temperature - (Photo: NASA)

Paul Goldsmith is also a participant in the Herschel Space Telescope, a project of the European Space Agency (ESA) where NASA is an important partner in the project.

According to NASA, the black hole in the center of the Milky Way has four million times the mass of the sun and is about 26,000 light-years from our solar system.

What makes Herschel's biggest surprise is that the temperature of the airflow in the central part of the extremely high Milky Way, up to at least 1,000 degrees Celsius, is much hotter than the same kind of gas in the middle. stars are minus 273 degrees Celsius.

According to scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the extremely high temperatures could be generated by "strong shocks" , when gas clouds have collisions and rubbing against each other during the process. strong suction into the black hole.