ALMA (ESO/NAOG/NRAO)/S. Balashev and P.
The name Star Wars seems to have been taken too seriously. Fight between galaxies was devastating – and no one has ever seen anything like that.
“We see here, for the first time, the effect of radiation directly on the internal gas structure of a galaxy that would otherwise be regular,” says the astronomer Sergei Balashev of the Ioffe Institute in Russia, which co-lids the one published in Nature This month.
Refers to the unprecedented moment when a Galaxy hit another with a powerful beam of radiation fired from his central black holereveals to.
Astronomers called him “cosmic struggle“And the“ wounded ”galaxy was even with significant damage. Star formation was suppressed as the radiation beam cleanses the clouds from which the baby stars are born.
Scientists believe that this activity plays an important role in the growth and evolution of galaxies and the growth of supermassive black holes in their nuclei.
The most important thing is that one of the galaxies is a quasarthat is, the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy feeds at a tremendous speed of a giant cloud of material around it.
In the case of the cosmic battle, when Quasar goes through the other galaxy at speeds of about 500 kilometers per secondyour jets reach your opponent. This disturbs the clouds of dust and gas that form stars.
After all, and although both galaxies are going through some tribulations, their continuous interaction offers hope for a new one. The ESO telescope, the authors guarantee, “will certainly allow us to advance in a deeper study of this and other systems, to better understand the evolution of quasars and their effect on host galaxies and neighboring galaxies.”
