Recently, a mysterious object rewrote everything we thought and knew about black holes.
First of all, a black hole should suck everything into itself, even light. Secondly, its gravity is so strong that it was believed that nothing in the known universe can escape from a black hole.
That all changed after NASA announced that something huge had left the black hole.
So what happened? Two NASA space telescopes, which included the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or (NuSTAR) for short, observed this special black hole when a large object very unexpectedly "ejected itself" out of the middle or "crown" of the black hole. Immediately after this momentous event, a strong pulse of X-ray energy separated from the corona. This event seems to have completely baffled scientists, completely baffled how NASA lands.
Fiona Harrison, who is NuStar's principal investigator, made a strong record that this type of phenomenon, which was completely unknown, is changing the way we originally thought about the functioning of black holes. Fortunately, thanks to the level of technology that we as a race have already reached, we were able to record this event. The data we get from this observation may provide us with certain clues in understanding how black holes work and how they function.
Dan Wilkins of St Mary's University says:
“This is the first time we have been able to trace a link from the corona to the outbreak. "This will help us understand how supermassive black holes affect the brightest objects in some of the universes."
When we think about how huge this object could be, then the second question naturally arises: what could it be?
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