Científicos aseguran que la violenta explosión, provocada por un gigantesco agujero negro, recuerda a la del Eyjafjallajökull
Los observatorios de rayos X Chandra de la NASA y Very Large Array de la National Science Foundation (NSF) han captado la erupción de un agujero negro en el centro de la galaxia cercana M87, a 50 millones de años luz de la Tierra, lo que se conoce como un súper volcán galáctico. El fenómeno ha provocado el aborto de la formación de cientos de millones de nuevas estrellas. Los astrónomos que estudian lo ocurrido se han quedado impresionados por las enormes semejanzas entre el volcán cósmico y el Eyjafjallajökull, el famoso volcán islandés que obligó a gran parte de Europa a cerrar sus aeropuertos la pasada primavera.
«Nuestros resultados muestran con gran detalle cómo los agujeros negros supermasivos tienen un sorprendente efecto sobre la evolución de las galaxias en las que viven», explica Norbert Werner, del Instituto Kavli para Astrofísica de Partículas y Cosmología en la Universidad de Stanford. «Y no se detiene allí. El alcance del agujero negro se extiende cada vez más en todo el clúster, de forma similar a cómo un pequeño volcán puede afectar a casi todo un hemisferio de la Tierra».
Even in a peaceful looking scene such as this one of Saturn and its moon Tethys, the Cassini spacecraft reveals clues about how Saturn is ever-changing. Saturn's northern hemisphere still shows the scars of the huge storm that raged through much of 2011 (see PIA14905). And, day by day, the shadows cast by the rings on the planet's southern hemisphere are growing wider as the seasons progress toward northern summer. See PIA11667 and PIA09793 to learn about the changing seasons and the shadows cast by the rings. Tethys (660 miles, or 1,062 kilometers across) appears above the rings to the left of the center of the image. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 10, 2012 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.4 million miles (2.3 million kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 39 degrees. Image scale on Saturn is 84 miles (136 kilometers) per pixel. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Read More
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