The black hole recently reanalyzed by astronomers from the California Institute of Technology managed to amaze them with an incredible phenomenon that has been occurring repeatedly for some time. According to astronomers who have looked closely at what is happening with this black hole, it would have light that "escapes" into the universe in the form of a boomerang, not in the "normal" form that has been observed for other objects of this kind. that exists in the cosmos now.
The black hole it has a star next to it, and together they form a body that is known as XTE J1550-564, the phenomenon that happens there being a real mystery for astronomers. The black hole has a mass that is about 10 times greater than that of the sun, and it is located at a distance of 17.000 kilometers from the Earth, its nearest star being located at a very small distance, and this made the discoveries possible now .
The INCREDIBLE Black Hole that totally AMAZED Astronomers
The black hole it has visible light in the accretion disk, and sometimes this "escapes" into the universe, but instead of coming out directly from this disk, it is pulled back towards the center of the object, and then it is reflected by the disk into the universe. This phenomenon is described by astronomers as a boomerang, and for a black hole they have never seen anything similar, at least not until now, so we are finally talking about a first that says a lot about this very large object.
"Usually, what we study is the light that comes from that gas. and jump off this disk spiraling towards the black hole. Normally, the team studies light coming from that corona and hitting the disc, bouncing off, then reaching our telescopes. It's something I've been studying for a long time. The thing we found, which was predicted in the '70s, is that you can see the light coming from the disk bent back on itself."
The black hole which has this incredible phenomenon at its center could help astronomers figure out how fast these large objects move, from which nothing normally "escapes". Depending on how much light escapes into the universe, even through the boomerang phenomenon, astronomers can calculate how fast a black hole rotates, which would be a first because until now this could not be calculated in any way .
The black hole in which this phenomenon was discovered was monitored many years ago by astronomers, so a "fresher" set of data could reveal more about the situation.
