Everyone knows that Black holes are insatiable eaters that tend to suck up everything in their sight.
However, Astronomers who were using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory claimed to have found a black hole at the heart of our galaxy, Milky Way which is quite the opposite of what one would expect it to be.
The Hole is claimed to be quite sloppy when it comes to its culinary habits. It was revealed that, the black hole manages to suck up less than 1 percent of the gas within its reach, from the new images of Sgr A* or Sagittarius A* i.e. pronounced as ’Sagittarius A-star’ which is roughly 26,000 light-years from Earth.
Based on his findings about ‘SGR A*’, Feng Yuan of Shanghai Astronomical Observatory in China claimed that on contrary to what some people think, black holes do not devour everything that’s pulled towards them, rather the ‘SGR A*’ is finding most of his food hard to swallow. This response solves the doubt about black hole which confounded astronomers for some time as to why some black holes appear to be surprisingly dim.
Black holes are claimed to be huge stars that have died which even light finds impossible to escape. Gravitational force on black holes is measured by X-ray emissions that indicate the amount of heat generated. The Chandra X-ray Observatory Astronomers explain as to why the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy doesn’t consume everything in sight.
Research leader Q. Daniel Wang of University of Massachusetts, Amherst claims that there has been a debate for the last 20 years, about what actually is happening to the matter around the black hole. It is still not understood if the black hole accretes the matter, or the matter is ejected. This was claimed to be the first direct confirmation for outpouring in the accretion process.
Reportedly, these findings are the result of one of Chandra’s greatest observation campaigns ever. Based on the 5 weeks data collected by SGR A*, the Researchers claim to have captured detailed X-ray images of super-heated gas that swirls around the black hole.