Black hole behind formation of mysterious "Hanny's voorwerp" in deep space.Byline: ANI Amsterdam, Nov 26 (ANI): New observations made by radio telescopes This is a list of radio telescopes that are or have been used for radio astronomy. It includes both single dishes and interferometer arrays. They are listed by region, then by name; unnamed telescopes are in reverse size order at the end of the lists. have revealed that the bizarre astronomical object Astronomical objects are significant physical entities, associations or structures which current science has confirmed to exist in space. This does not necessarily mean that more current science will not disprove their existence. known as "Hanny's voorwerp", which is a huge green irregular cloud of gas, is being generated by a massive black hole at the centre of a nearby galaxy. The Voorwerp was discovered by Hanny van Arkel, a Dutch school Dutch School may mean one of two movements in the arts:
While surfing through hundreds of images, Hanny noticed a huge green irregular cloud of gas of galactic scale, located about 60,000 light years from a nearby galaxy, IC2497. Astronomers have been baffled by this mysterious object for over a year now. The extent of the cloud is enormous and the gas is extremely hot, with temperatures exceeding 15000 degrees Celsius, but paradoxically, it is devoid of stars. Now, an international team of astronomers, led by Professor Mike Garrett Michael Lockett Garrett (born April 12, 1944 in Los Angeles, California) is a former American football player who won the 1965 Heisman Trophy as a tailback for the University of Southern California Trojans. , and including Hanny van Arkel herself, have observed IC2497 and the Voorwerp with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) (near Westerbork (camp), north of Westerbork (village), Midden-Drenthe, in the northeastern Netherlands) is an aperture synthesis interferometer that consists of a linear array of 14 antennas arranged on a 2.7 km East-West line. (WSRT WSRT Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope WSRT Wyoming Society of Radiologic Technologists WSRT Weapon System Readiness Test WSRT Washington Secondary Rail-Trail WSRT Warm Start WSRT Websphere Resource Transfer ) and an e-VLBI array, in which the WSRT also participated. The picture that is emerging from these data is that a jet of highly energetic particles is being generated by a massive black hole at the centre of IC2497. "It looks as though the jet emanating from the black hole clears a path through the dense interstellar medium of IC 2497 towards Hanny's Voorwerp", said Garrett. "This cleared channel permits the beam of intense optical and ultraviolet emission associated with the black hole, to illuminate a small part of a large gas cloud that partially surrounds the galaxy," he added. he optical and ultraviolet emission heats and ionises the gas cloud, thus creating the phenomena known as Hanny's voorwerp. "There is a lot of gas out there. The WSRT observations detect a huge stream of gas that is extended across hundreds of thousands of light years", said Dr. Gyula Jozsa, another member of the team. The total mass of gas is about 5000 million times the mass of the sun, according to Jozsa. "It has all the hallmarks of an interacting system. The gas probably arises from a tidal interaction between IC 2497 and another galaxy, several hundred million years ago", said Dr. Tom Oosterloo. According to Oosterloo, "The stream of gas ends three hundred thousand light years westwards of IC2497. All the evidence points towards a group of galaxies at the tip of the stream being responsible for this freak cosmic accident". (ANI) Copyright 2008 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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