COPENHAGEN: Scientists have uncovered a major cosmic mystery, revealing the true nature of the tiny red marks observed in space. These dots, which were initially detected in the images captured by the Webb telescope, have been a source of research for scientists for many years.
The telescope, apart from various other phenomena, had kept scientists quite curious about these tiny red spots. The source of the marks was so unclear that it was confusing scientists at first, presumably to clarify.
Still, the researchers from the University of Copenhagen have gained a crucial finding. They announced that these red dots are in fact, a sign of violent actions in the universe’s gigantic black holes. The theorists have it that the marks are the witnesses of black holes so large that they can even take in gas and radiate heat and light.
When gas is being devoured by black holes, so much heat is produced that the light emitted from this process can eventually become visible after penetrating clouds of gas surrounding the black holes. The scientists have gone on to say that these black holes are not only young but also spreading out at a pace that is unheard of before.
Gas surrounding black holes acts as a rapidly replenishing supply of Mother Nature’s fuel to them, thus allowing them to grow at a mind-boggling rate. The timeline of the red marks’ first occurrence was in a galaxy then about 13 billion years old, from which it later vanished. This quickly led to the association of the red marks with the earliest stages of galaxy formation, which is believed to be around 13 billion years ago.
At first, scientists speculated that the red marks might be associated with the formation of new galaxies. But when this theory failed to be verified, some scientists suggested that possible black holes could have caused the marks, but they weren’t able to give a clue about how it happened.
A recent study has now validated that the red marks are, in fact, a lot smaller than what was assumed earlier. The researchers cited that when the gas is pulled into a black hole, it creates a very high energy and light and thus the radiation produced passes through the gas clouds in red, orange, ultraviolet, and X-ray forms.
An invention like this one specifies more clearly the scenario of black hole formation in the universe when it was extremely hot and dense very early. The study’s outcomes were published in the Nature journal.
Not only does this significant discovery enlarge our understanding of astral happenings but it also ushers in a new era in the struggle of understanding black holes and the early universe which has been going on for quite some time.
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