Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
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Re: Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
#2Link to actual paper with actual images: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acba86
Re: Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
#3Link to actual paper with actual images: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acba86
Incredibly cool. That is an absolutely massive structure, twice the length our Milky Way is across. Those images are like no astronomy images I've ever seen.
Re: Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
#4Huh. That's a very interesting find. It's been a while since I took Astronomy and Physics but I thought you get black hole after massive stars fuse all lighter elements up until [Fe]? It must have pulled enough lighter elements in its path of travel to leave enough for star formation in its streaks.
Re: Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
#5Link to actual paper with actual images: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acba86
I get incredibly frustrated with popular science articles that use only artist’s impressions and avoid the real images.
To me, the real images are much more exciting. You don’t need fake clarity and fake colour when you’re seeing a (candidate) high speed black hole sucking the life out of some fricking ginormous balls of flaming nuclear fusion.
Re: Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
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Re: Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
#7Link to actual paper with actual images: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acba86
And the NASA press release:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/hubble-sees-possib...
Not sure what the deal is with this hubblesite.org…
Edit: Ah ok, interesting… It’s entirely legit. The “about us” page says the website is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute (https://www.stsci.edu).
Re: Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
#8Link to actual paper with actual images: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acba86
I get incredibly frustrated with popular science articles that use only artist’s impressions and avoid the real images. To me, the real images are much more exciting. You don’t need fake clarity and fake colour when you’re seeing a (candidate) high speed black hole sucking the life out of some fricking ginormous balls of flaming nuclear fusion.
This article is even worse, that it shows an illustration without a caption identifying it as an illustration, which is very misleading. (Later they show it again with the caption saying it's an illustration.)
Re: Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
#9Huh. That's a very interesting find. It's been a while since I took Astronomy and Physics but I thought you get black hole after massive stars fuse all lighter elements up until [Fe]? It must have pulled enough lighter elements in its path of travel to leave enough for star formation in its streaks.
Black holes at galactic cores likely have different origin mechanisms.
Re: Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
#10Link to actual paper with actual images: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acba86
And the NASA press release: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/hubble-sees-possib... Not sure what the deal is with this hubblesite.org… Edit: Ah ok, interesting… It’s entirely legit. The “about us” page says the website is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute ( https://www.stsci.edu ).
Absolutely incredible.