Massive As A Billion Suns

This is an exciting time for those of us who are interested in the existence of “Black Holes” in the universe. For over a decade, we have been wondering whether Einstein’s theory of the existence of objects in the universe so dense that even the light could not escape them, and Hawking’s theory of massive of dead stars running out of fuel collapsing under its own gravity into a black hole, are not just science fictions. Scientists and researchers are now in the process of identifying the hundreds of millions of existing black holes to measure its mass and the speed at which it spins. Marc Kaufman, the Washington Post science writer, in his excellent article, Scientists Shining Light Into Black Holes wrote that spinning and the gravitational force it reflects could be so great that black holes drag surrounding space, stars and gases into them. The spin was estimated to be as fast as 950 times a second, creating powerful magnetic fields. The NASA graphic gave wonderful image of how such a field from a supermassive black holes – with a mass of perhaps a billion suns – can send a jet of particles at almost the speed of light far beyond the center of a galaxy. Cosmologist and astronomers also believe that there are many different kinds of black holes, and that it is likely that most galaxies have a black hole at the center. Fabulous Getty images from European Space agency of supermassive black holes in the core of a galaxy named MCG-6-30-15, as seen through X-ray Multi-mirror Mission satellite, shows to us how energy is being extracted from a black hole. With new scientific instruments, scientists can test the Black Hole theories and let us know how they behave in accumulating matter and in the formation of new galaxies.

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