Astronomers observe light from behind the black hole

Despite intensive research, black holes still remain a mystery to us. We know that the mass of black holes is compressed in a very narrow space. Anything that enters this area will be swallowed irreversibly.

The black hole appears as a shadow in the images. In 2019, researchers were able to capture a black hole in a photograph for the first time. Now, about two years later, scientists at Stanford University have made another observation that says more about black holes. For the first time, researchers were able to observe X-rays from the back of the black hole Synex of Wissenmax Report

Attention Astronomers Is underground. She confirmed one thing Albert Einstein Predicted event. In developing his theory of relativity in 1915, he considered that black holes – when viewed from the side of a bright accretion disk made of absorbed material – would lead to a curve of space-time. Under an aggression disk on Astronomy A disk rotates around an object and it moves toward the center. It consists of ionized gas, called plasma, or atomic gas. The curvature of the black holes must be so strong that, according to Einstein’s assumption, the light away from the back of the black hole is visible from the front. This allows the front and rear to be viewed simultaneously.

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Astronomer Dan Wilkins of Stanford University and his team have now recorded these hypotheses with the help of special X-ray telescopes. Observations were made Nature Magazine Published. The team was able to capture radiation from the back of a black hole in the I Zwicky galaxy 800 million light-years away. As? At a distance of about 60 million kilometers from the black hole, the contacts between the plasma and the magnetic field emit strong radiation. These X-ray bursts, which are partially reflected on the acceleration disk, will flash again with a slight delay.

Further in the course of Wilkins and his team, the researchers also observed: the second X-ray eruption appeared in terms of its spectral properties and time, a delayed echo of the first X-ray eruption. In addition, the researchers found that the energies of individual explosions must have been reflected by different parts of the accumulation disk. “Analysis of X-ray flares reveals abbreviated flashes of photons, whose properties match the emission from the back of the black hole,” said Dan Wilkins. “These light particles jump from the opposite side of the disk and bend and multiply by the strong gravitational force around the black hole.”

With these observations, Einstein’s hypothesis can be confirmed: black holes form a strong curve that can be seen back and forth simultaneously. These observations are another step by scientists in bringing light into darkness (black holes).

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