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A Supermassive Black Hole Beam Is Headed Towards Earth!
Subscribe for more videos:https://www.youtube.com/c/InsaneCuriosity?sub_confirmation=1? From what this entity truly is, to how its beam could affect Earth, join me as we explore a supermassive black hole that has a beam pointed at Earth! Astronomers have discovered the existence of a supermassive black hole that looks to be the oldest and most distant of its kind we've ever encountered – and it just happens to be aiming its bright particle beam directly at Earth. Yes, not a "laser beam", but a particle beam. The newly found supermassive black hole – called PSO J030947.49+271757.31 – is the most distant blazar ever observed, researchers say. That conclusion is based on the wavelength signature of the object's redshift, a phenomenon scientists can use to measure the distance of light-emitting sources in space. Blazars are supermassive black holes that lie at the heart of active galactic nuclei: central regions of galaxies bursting forth with high levels of luminosity and electromagnetic emissions, thought to occur due to the intense heat generated by particles of gas and dust swirling in the accretion disks of supermassive black holes. If you're curious, the term 'blazar' is reserved for supermassive black holes where the jet of radiation is angled towards Earth, which makes it handy for astronomers to analyze these distant black holes in greater detail. And it's because of that, that scientists were able to see PSO J030947.49+271757.31 and notice that its particle beam was indeed pointed right at us. "The spectrum that appeared before our eyes confirmed first that PSO J0309+27 is actually an active galaxy nucleus, or a galaxy whose central nucleus is extremely bright due to the presence in its centre of a supermassive black hole fed by the gas and the stars it engulfs," says astrophysicist Silvia Belladitta from the University of Insubria in Italy. "In addition, the data obtained by the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) also confirmed that PSO J0309+27 is really far away from us, according to the shift of the colour of its light toward red or redshift with a record value of 6.1, never measured before for a similar object." Why do we care that these beams are pointed right at us? Information! And not just information, information based on light that was first shown billions and billions of years ago. You see, in the case of PSO J030947.49+271757.31, we detected that its light wasn't just old, it was 13 billion years old by the time it reached us. Which means that this supermassive black hole was around in the earliest parts of the universe (which is believed to be around 14 billion years old for the record). Belladitta and her colleagues were able to spot PSO J0309+27 (which is the shorthand for the black hole) by combining data from several different observatories. First, the team examined bright radio sources captured by the NRAO’s Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System in Hawaii (Pan-STARRS), and a space telescope called the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). And believe it or not, the Big Bang and what came before and after it is still a question that MANY people are still trying to answer it. Because while the Big Bang is still very much a theory (as we obviously can't prove that it is real for all sorts of reason), many people believe it as fact, and thus try and find as much information as possible on the Big Bang and its after effects and its creation so that a better picture of the universe can be created. And these black holes are one of the perfect vessels to allow that information to come forth. Oh, and then there's the fact that the galaxies that have been made over the years have collided and even devoured other galaxies at times, so learning more about the moments and even the "motivations" of the black holes will help paint an even clearer picture of the universe. Which is good because we, the galaxy that is the Milky Way, is also on a collision course with another supermassive black hole galaxy. One that you know very well, it's called...the Andromeda Galaxy. That's right, we're colliding with our neighbor, and you could argue that it's part of the "natural order" of the universe at large. Galaxies colliding is something that scientists have observed for some time, and in fact, they happen much more often than you think. Picture it like rain on a window. The raindrops all hit the window in equal measure, some bigger and some smaller, but they're all their own entity. But, as they drift down the window (not unlike galaxies drifting in the universe) they eventually collide with other droplets, and become bigger. Whether it's the Milky Way, Andromeda, or another galaxy that is out there, this is the fate they face. And that includes the Milky Way and Andromeda colliding. #InsaneCuriosity# RecentSpaceDiscoveries #SupermassiveBlackHole
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