Giant killer: Space found a "weapon" that destroys one star after another (video)

The new discovery helped scientists to attribute two cosmic secrets that had previously had only a hint that they were connected. With the help of several cosmic telescopes, astronomers have made an important discovery that concerns supermassive black holes. It turned out that a giant black hole destroyed one star and uses its debris as weapons to destroy another star.

Thanks to this discovery, astronomers were able to find a link between two cosmic secrets that had previously had a hint that they were related. The results of the study are published in Nature, writes Interesting Engineering. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel.

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! Five years ago, astronomers saw an event of a tidal destruction, called AT2019qiz, during which the supermassive black hole was torn into parts by its gravity. After the destruction of this star around the black hole formed a disk from the residues of the star. A new study has shown that in a few years this disk has grown significantly in size.

The disk is now in the way of rotation of another star around the black hole, although this star is still a safe distance from the ferman of the matter. Astronomers found that the star is repeatedly crashed into a disc from the fragments of the dead star for about 48 hours. When this happens, bright X -rays occur. This indicates that the black hole uses the fragments of the dead star as a weapon to destroy the same way during the incidence of the tidal destruction.

Over the past few years, astronomers have discovered with supermassive black holes previously unknown X -rays, which are repeated repeatedly. Scientists could not explain the nature of these periodic light outbreaks, although they were thought to be related to black holes. Now there has been proof that this is really the case. In this way, astronomers were able to associate two cosmic secrets that relate to supermassive black holes and their environment.

Astronomers say that new data made it possible to make a major scientific breakthrough in the understanding of regular X -ray light outbreaks associated with the activity of black holes and the absorption of matter. According to the astronomers, it was necessary to wait a few years so that the disk around the black hole increased in size and in this way it could still face the "alive" star.

If the technological capabilities of intelligent creatures in the universe are endless, why did we not see the signs of a developed alien civilization? As focus has already written, scientists believe that the reason lies in the fact that there is a boundary of technological development of civilizations in the universe. Focus also wrote that scientists believe that a huge amount of space debris would lead to a catastrophe in orbit that is no longer avoided.