A little less than a month ago, a team of scientists reviewing data from the Thubble space telescope They were surprised to notice the presence of an “invisible monster” about 7.5 billion years away from Earth.
They identified it as a supermassive black hole moving uncontrollably through space. They said it was moving so fast that it created stars instead of devouring them, because of how fast it was expanding.
This gigantic space phenomenon has the weight of up to 20 million suns and traverses intergalactic space so quickly that, if it were in our Solar System, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in less than 15 minutes.
“I don’t know it was like anything we’ve seen before,” Pieter van Dokkum, a researcher at Yale University in New Haven, said at the time. “We think we are seeing a trail behind the black hole where the gas cools and can form stars. So, we are seeing star formation behind the black hole,” he added.
A black hole leaving stars in its wake was simply something never seen before, although it has been theorized before. But unfortunately what they detected was a so-called thin or flat galaxy, according to a review T13.
The report of what reality is this phenomenon was detected by a confirmation study carried out by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in the Canary Islands. The captured images show that this event has a thin, spinning disk of gas, dust, and stars at its center.
“The movements, size and number of stars are consistent with what has been seen in galaxies within the local universe,” said the lead author of the research, Jorge Sánchez Almeida.
They made the comparison with an image of IC5249, a previously detected flat galaxy. The screenshot shown below has the “invisible monster” and the star cluster mentioned in this very paragraph.
