- Galaxien, Sterne, Schwarze Löcher - Astronomie Fans hier? Beitrag #161
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A giant black hole weighing as much as 12 billion suns was found inside a quasar, a bright astronomical body like the one illustrated here with a black hole at its center.
t's not the biggest black hole ever found, but it's astonishingly young. The giant appears to have swelled to its enormous size only 875 million years after the big bang, when the universe was just 6 percent of its current age. That's a surprise, astronomers report Wednesday in the journal Nature, because giant black holes are thought to grow relatively slowly by vacuuming up gas and even stars that venture too close.
"How do you build such a big black hole in such a short time?" asks Xue-Bing Wu of China's Peking University, lead author of the study.
Wu and his colleagues didn't see the black hole directly, since by definition it has such powerful gravity that nothing, including light, can escape from it. Instead, using telescopes in China, Hawaii, Arizona, and Chile, the team spotted a quasar, a powerful object lit by a brilliant glow of gas that heats up as it tries to squeeze itself into the black hole itself.
"This is the biggest monster we've ever detected in terms of luminosity," says Avi Loeb, chair of the Harvard astronomy department, who was not involved in the research. It's about 40,000 times as bright as the entire Milky Way, Loeb says.
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Tolles Bild! Ich hätte die Sonnenfinsternis auch gerne mit meinen eigenen Augen gesehen (mit Brille natürlich), aber man konnte absolut nichts sehen...Neblig und eine dicke fette Wolkendecke. :|
Ich hab gehört, dass es die nächste 2081 gibt, stimmt das?
Mit dem Fernrohr wie zu Galileos Zeiten in den Himmel gucken bringt halt nicht mehr viel Erkenntnisgewinn. Wobei "Sterne anschauen" und "spektroskopischen Analysen" irgendwie auch das selbe istAstronomen befassen sich inzwischen leider weniger mit Sterne anschauen als mit Berechnungen und spektroskopischen Analysen.