Recent discoveries have been made witnessing an event in the
middle of the Milky Way galaxy, where our super massive black hole (SMBH) is
consuming a planet forming cloud. This black
hole known as Sagittarius A* (also known as SgrA*) is a super massive black
hole which acts as the lynchpin for the orbit of all star systems that are in
our galaxy. Since the super massive black hole is so large, it influences
everything in the entire galaxy. There is evidence to believe that every galaxy
in the universe has a super massive black hole.
Our SMBH removed the cloud out of its orbit stripping away
disks of the cloud, which was believe to be in a ring of suns that was closely orbiting
near the black hole. This cloud of ionised gas and dust will not be able to
form into anything anymore since it has been absorbed into the singularity of
the black hole.
This research was carried out at the Harvard-Smithsonian
centre for Astrophysics in Cambridge. How the researchers were able to detect
this event was by indirect evidence, the cloud that is being sucked up is being
disrupted on its journey to the black hole, and this is the remnants of the
star is being detected by the Very Large Telescope based in the Atacama Desert
in northern Chile.
Fig.1 Planet forming cloud sucked towards the black hole's accretion zone
Credit: ESO/MPE/M.Schartmann
It is inferred from the data uncovered, is that the cloud is
a proto-planetary disk that is surrounding a star with lower mass than most.
Meaning that the star was probably a baby star making it easy for the black
holes gravity and radiation to easily rip apart the cloud and then suck it into
the accretion zone.
From data, the cloud is currently travelling to the black
hole is an oval or elliptical formation in orbit. Soon to enter the event horizon
where time itself will slow down, relative to out plane of observation, and the
star will simply fade away. But before that it will take another year to travel
to the black hole and more debris will be ripped apart from the sun cloud,
falling into the hole.
The environment will be so intense what the friction alone
from the event will even raise the temperature enough to emit even X-Rays, which
will probably be able to detect on Earth.
Though not all hope is lost for the star, since most of it
will fall in to the black hole, not all of it will be crushed out of existence.
The disk and layers will be stripped but the inner layer of the cloud will
remain. This is due to gravity of the star itself. As it will hold on more
tightly to the inner layer due to massive gravitational wells in the star. This
can also be inferred that even near the centre of the galaxy which has been
known and cited to be a really bad place to create planets, it technically able
to do so, even given regards to the super massive black hole that would be just
on the horizon.
Feynman
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