Galaxy Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy
They have some interesting news in NASA’s website. A powerful jet from a super massive black hole seems to blast a nearby galaxy. According to researchers, this jet might destroy the planets on its way, but it might also speed up the formation process of new stars. This objects is known as 3C321 and it includes two galaxies in orbit around each other. There are two huge blak holes in the middle of both galaxies, but there is a jet from the bigger galaxy towards the smaller one.
Jets of black holes include lots of powerful high-energy X- and gamma-rays as well as particles moving with the speed of light. All these together can easily destroy a planet’s ozone layer making life on the planet impossible. What makes this phenomenon interesting, is that in cosmic time scale the phenomenon has just started. It started only one million years ago, which makes this possibility to study black hole’s jets very important and unique.
Read more about this interesting phenomenon in Nasa website.
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Catastrophic phenomena have always been ‘generators’ of both death and life in the cosmos. A supernova will eventually feed other stars.
An asteroid destroyed the dinosaurs, but gave a chance of development to mammals. Jee, planetary impacts could also bring water and the necessary ingredients of life.
Good points, pericles. One very interesting thing in the universe is time. Imagine cosmic things happening during hundreds of million years. When we think about the age of the universe, which is about 13.7 billion years, we can get an idea of the cosmic scales.
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