The bizarre blob was traveling at 30% the speed of light.
Astronomers have detected a blob of hot gas whizzing around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy at an extraordinary speed. A powerful magnetic field surrounding the colossal space-time tear has supercharged the bizarre gaseous globule, speeding it up to 30% the speed of light, a new study finds.
"This requires a mind-blowing velocity of about 30% of the speed of light," study lead author Maciek Wielgus, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany, said in a statement . That's around 201.2 million mph , or around 3,000 times faster than Earth moves around the sun.Researchers first spotted the orbiting blob in 2017 using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope in Chile.
The only explanation for this type of acceleration is that the flare originated from the black hole's magnetically arrested disk — a ring of matter surrounding a black hole that is being held in place by a strong magnetic field, which counterbalances the forces of gravity pulling the matter into the cosmic void. Researchers, therefore, deduced that the only possible origin of the flare was a supercharged gas blob trapped within this disk.
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