A black hole changes the color of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and people wonder what’s going on. A discovery in the Astrophysical Journal on November 12 led Michal Zajacek of the Polish Academy of Sciences to observe the phenomena. A supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A is near the middle of the galaxy. That point had pumped gas that had literally siphoned the outer layers of the various stars in the Milky Way. Now, it may seem like a five-alarm problem, but there’s nothing to worry about right now. To hear Zajacek tell him, the two large gamma-ray gas bubbles do not travel much farther than the immediate area. In fact, it is now argued that scientists are now more easily able to form a hypothesis about when the black hole formed. Speaking to Science News, the astrophysicist talked about how red giants were prime targets.
“The plane acts preferentially on the huge red giants,” he says. “They can actually be ablated by the jet.”
Their reporting goes on to say that the size and shape of these stars make them very sensitive to gamma rays. Other red giants can increase the size of our Sun up to 100 times. At that size, removing the red outer layer would immediately endanger them. When they pass through these gases, the stars burn blue instead of red, which explains the change in color.
Maybe one day explorers on our planet could go and investigate these types of movements. Other contemporaries in the scientific community have argued that there must be more to this situation than just exposure to gas. Only time will tell.
In other space news, the United States recently revealed its name for the Space Force. They will be known as Guards, and the newest branch of the army described it on Twitter. “Today, after a one-year trial that produced hundreds of submissions and research involving space professionals and members of the general public, we can finally share the name we will be known as: Guardians.”
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