A massive black hole was captured on film by a team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile. A massive

Key Highlights :

1. A supermassive black hole has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and has left behind a 2,000,000 light year long condensed trail of newborn stars.

2. The black hole lies at one end of the column, at the other end of which lies its parent galaxy.

3. The gas is being 'shocked' and heated from the motion of the black hole hitting the gas, or it could be radiation from an accretion disk around the black hole.

     New Delhi: A supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a 2,00,000-light-year-long condensed trail of newborn stars, twice the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy, in its wake, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), US. Captured accidentally by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the black hole was […]

     A supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a condensed trail of newborn stars, twice the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), US.

     The black hole, located in the center of the galaxy NGC 4993, was discovered by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 2009. The trail of stars was created when the black hole dragged along a stream of gas and dust.

     The black hole is about 27 million times the mass of the Sun and is located about 25 million light years from Earth.

     The discovery of the black hole’s trail of stars is the first time that astronomers have been able to document the aftermath of a supermassive black hole.

     According to NASA, the black hole’s trail of stars could help scientists learn more about the evolution of galaxies.

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