Cosmos. A black hole in the constellation of the unicorn

The black hole, nicknamed “the unicorn”, is located only 1,500 light-years from Earth and is extremely short in space. The object has a small mass – It is only three times larger than our sun.

The discovery was made while analyzing data from the All Sky Automated Survey (the Polish project of automatic telescopes that constantly monitor about 20 million stars across the sky.) And the Space Telescope. NASA Exopanet satellite transit survey.

The red giant is losing its luster

PhD student Tharindu Jayasinghe and colleagues are from The Ohio State University They noticed something unusual – a red giant that periodically changes its brightness. The conclusion reached is attracted to something and changes the shape. The red giant is a star nearing the end of its life, this is the fate of our sun. Scientists have conducted research and found that what affects the shape stars There may be a black hole 3 times the mass of the sun. By comparison, the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is about 4.3 million solar masses.

Just as the moon distorts Earth’s oceans as it approaches and farther away, causing a tidal wave, says Todd Thompson, the dean of Ohio State University, the black hole pulls a star inward, making it longer along one axis than the other, Todd explains. Thompson, dean of The Ohio State University. Astronomy Department. The simplest explanation in this case is the existence of a black hole, and it is the most likely here.

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KopalniaWiedzy.pl, Focus.pl

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