Astronomers first observed as a black hole swallows the star and "spits" remnants into space
He and other processes of individual scientists have ever seen. There are examples and falling stars in the big black hole, relativistic jets and powerful substances that are emitted from them away. But now they recorded together for the first time and almost simultaneously.
"These events - a rarity - says one of the authors of discoveries, astronomer Sort Van Welz (Sjoert van Velzen) of Johns Hopkins University. - We first saw everything - from the destruction of a star and to start a conical jet, everything that happened within a few months. "
Events for which scientists have followed in December 2014, unfolded at 300 million light years from Earth. Unhappy star in size was similar to our Sun, but a black hole, although of the supermassive located in the active centers of large galaxies, as their standards are not so high and considerably easier to "our", located in the center of the Milky Way.
After receiving information about the first observation of the meeting made by ground-based optical telescopes, Van Welz colleagues sent them an arsenal of tools, waiting for the next event. And just in time: soon nascent relativistic jet images were obtained in X-ray and radio wavelengths, as well as in the visible range.
Such plasma jet escaping from the centers of active galaxies in just one or two opposite sides, remains one of the most spectacular and obscure phenomena of space. The speed of the plasma in these approaches the light, and a red-hot, it begins to emit intense radiation over a broad spectrum of wavelengths. However, the mechanism of origin of such emissions is still unclear - likely to give birth to their complex interactions of magnetic fields from accreting into the black hole matter. Perhaps the new observations of this impressive phenomenon will give way for a more precise hypotheses.
