Showing posts with label Solar System. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solar System. Show all posts

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Necessary Ingredients Detected in the Milky Way for the formation Black Holes Pt.II

Now as mentioned before, there is uncertainty  about the implications of the time lag, would that nebula still be the same as it was when the light left that cloud 30,000 years ago. I don’t know. Everything we look at respectively is looking in the past, the light that is coming to our eyes are images of the past. Looking at a computer screen its only a few femtoseconds to reach the screen to your eyes. As you could imagine this is not a really example and shows how insignificant it is. But if you amplify the distance considerably, then your results begin to take form.


The disk shaped clouds that were observed are about 50 light years cross . This is a massive number and in comparison to the Earth, you would not be able to see the Earth, in fact you wouldn’t be able to see the sun, except maybe for a little white dot so faint, that you would mistaken it for a dead pixel on your screen.

The leader of the study Tomoharu Oka of Keio University in Japan stated that the 50 light year across chemical cloud “revolves around the supermassive black hole at a very fast speed". Which the other clouds of clumped chemicals are increase and expanding very fast rates of about 223, 000 mp/h. This is allowing the scientists think that the super novas massive explosions were a cause of this particular expansion.  This is an interesting part, that the fast growth of the cloud is suggesting that 200 super nova have gone of inside. This cloud is assume or suggested to be only about 60,000 years of age (Not very old, relative to the cosmic age). Deducing this from the observations, it is thought that supernovae are suspected to go of every 300 years.

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Wednesday, 26 September 2012

The Most Captivating Image of the Deep Universe to Date

Just recently a picture has been released to the general public detailing the sheer immense and vastness and oddly colourful voids of space. Taking over 500 hours to build this picture taken from the Hubble space telescope, a telescope that was put into orbit in 1990. It was carried by the space shuttle Discovery and has been serving as our eyes in space. The picture carefully reconstructed to give this massive panoramic picture of the Universe. This is called the eXtreme Deep Field, where the telescope captures masses of galaxies that stretch back almost to the time where time itself began.
The Hubble telescope had to peer into a tiny corner of space and take in all the light traveling to it for over 500 hours (roughly about 22 days) to create this beautiful picture. By doing this scientist have obtain information about the deep and distant Universe, and allowed to see galaxies at their younger stages of life.


 Fig.1 The Image taken by the XDF/Hubble telescope
Credit: NASA/ESA

This particular tool will be very helpful to the Astro-Physiscts that are studying the stars, to allow the use of XDF will allow deeper studies on how the universe was first made and the process it took to form in the way we see it today!
Because of the XDF we have a candidate for the furthest galaxy ever discovered, also making it the youngest observable one, known as the (UDFj-39546284). If this can be confirmed, then if this is inferred then the galaxy that is currently been seen is only 460 million years old after the big bang, and we can detect how galaxies are formed in such a violent and hot state so soon after the big bang

Feynman
 

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