Scientists Discover Huge Black Hole In Our Galaxy
BLACK HOLE – Scientists Discover a massive black hole within our galaxy that should never have existed in the first place.
The Milky Way has been said to have an estimate of 100 million stellar black holes. However, this particular one, LB-1 is twice as massive as anything science thought was possible.
According to Liu Jifeng a professor of the National Astronomical Observatory of China, Black Holes of such mass should not even exist. He said that this was based on the current models of stellar evolution.
Generally, scientists have concluded that there are two types of Black Holes. They are the common stellar black holes and the supermassive black holes.
The common stellar black holes span up to 20 times bigger than the Sun. They form when the center of a big star collapses in on itself.
Meanwhile, supermassive black holes are at least a million times bigger than the Sun. However, their origins are still uncertain.
According to an article from Manila Bulletin, theorists will now need to take the challenge of explaining the black hole’s formation. Adding to this, astronomers are still beginning to grasp the mechanisms of how they are formed.
Stellar black holes are oftentimes created after a supernova. This is when a massive star burns out at the end of their lives.
“LB-1’s large mass falls into a range “known as the ‘pair-instability gap’ where supernovae should not have produced it”, said David Reitze, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology.
In other words, the large mass of LB-1 falls into the category of a new kind of black hole. This is due to it being formed by another physical mechanism.
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