Scientists have now taken the rain that falls into a black hole for the first time

Scientists have now taken the rain that falls into a black hole for the first time

Time can be shabby where it is now, but count to your good luck living in the comfort of planet Earth because where in space, it is only real.

For the first time, scientists have identified the dense, cold clouds that condense around a supermassive black hole in the center of a massive cluster of galaxies called Abell 2597. Not only do these intergalactic clouds of monogiche gas empty the black hole, even feed it , Which could explain how black holes are still more massive.

"Although it was an important theoretical prediction in recent years it is one of the first observational tests for a clear and chaotic cold rain that feeds a supermassive black hole," said One of the team members, astronomer Grant Tremblay de Yale University.

"It's exciting to think that we can actually see the storm through the galaxy, feeding a black hole with a mass about 300 million times that of the sun."

Tremblay and his team used ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimetric) data in Chile to identify the activities of cold molecular gas in the center of the brightest galaxy Abell 2597 - a huge spiral of 50 galaxies situated approximately 1 to 23 billion Light years from Earth.

Scientists have discovered three huge clouds of cold gas about 1 million miles per hour (about 300 kilometers per second) into the black hole.

It is estimated that the cloud contains as much matter as a million suns and extends for at least 10 light-years. To put it in perspective, 1-year light is about 9.5 trillion kilometers (5.88 billion miles), so, umm, you will need a large umbrella

And if you think that we are very simple through a call to the phenomenon of black rain, Michael Byrne plaque explains:

"Astronomy and Astrophysics are overloaded with metaphors, but in this case, black rain is almost a literal description. The precipitation we live here on Earth occurs when the moisture in the air cools and condenses.

It turns out something like that occurs between groups that are typically found in galaxies that mix with clouds of hot, ionized plasma - some areas of cold gas and falling inward as they condense.

Not only is it incredibly cool that scientists have witnessed a new and totally bad shape of space-time, but the discovery helps us understand how black holes continue to grow so large before their collapse under their dough and gravity die.

Astronomers have long suggested that black holes - supermassici the largest black holes known as total noun - basically galaxy clusters grow by feeding a slow and steady diet of ionized hot gas extracted outside the galaxy halo - A Process known as growth. (Aldrich, get out of there, you've had enough).

 That the presence of three clouds of gas growing in the black hole of Abell 2597 suggest that this process of "eating and fattening" is much more sporadic - essentially, trap, rather than grazing, suggest Tremblay and his team.

As Byrne says the motherboard, these clouds are about 300 light years to reach the event horizon, which is roughly equivalent to rain. Earth is milliseconds away from landing in a puddle of water. This means that the astronomer approaches they may come to capture in the process of feeding the black hole, and it is also possible that they may testify in the fall.