GlacierDogMapMe: Can Black Holes Shoot Out Matter?
“Bullet-Shooting Black Hole”: “Black holes are known for sucking in matter, but researchers find they can shoot it out as well. Observations of a black hole called H1743-322, which harbors five to 10 times the mass of the sun and is located about 28,000 light-years from Earth, revealed it apparently pulled matter off a companion star, then spat some of it back out as gigantic “bullets” of gas moving at nearly a quarter the speed of light. The black hole’s “belch” is actually a bipolar jet of plasma (ionized gas) that discharges particles from the centre of an accretion disc (a structure that moves material toward its centre - in this case, the black hole). This galactic belch ejects particles, scattering them amongst stars and planets, and may also affect magnetic fields in the galaxy.” Credit: Greg Sivakoff/University of Alberta.
http://www.space.com/15941-strangest-black-holes-universe-countdown.html
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GlacierDogMapMe: Do You Know Where To Find Milky Way’s Central Black Hole?
* “At the center lurks the Milky Way’s central black hole, also known as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “A-star”) because it lies in the constellation Sagittarius. Most galaxies have such a central black hole around which stars, gas and dust swirl as if going down a drain. Sagittarius A* is a heavyweight among black holes, coming in at around 4 million times the mass of the Sun (although it is only about 15 times as wide).”
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/341117/title/At_Home_in_the_Universe
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GlacierDogMapMe: Is there a Planet Made of Diamonds?
* A planet made of diamond crystals has been discovered in the Milky Way’s plane of stars in the constellation of Serpens.
* The “Diamond Planet” has a 2 hr, 10 min orbit around fast-spinning pulsar J1719-1438. J1719-1438 is called a millisecond pulsar and rotates more than 10,000 times/minute. The planet is at a very close distance of 600,000 km to its pulsar. In fact, it is so close, it is believed that if the planet was larger the pulsar’s gravity could rip it apart.
* The planet is very dense and believed to possibly be all that remains of a once-massive star, most of whose matter was siphoned off towards the pulsar. It is believed to be largely carbon and oxygen, crystalline, and a large part of it may be similar to a diamond.
Refs: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/uom-apm082311.php
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/diamond-planet/
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GlacierDogMapMe: Is it a Planet or a “Failed Star”?
* This “massive, puffed-up oddity” planet is located in the constellation Andromeda. Called, KELT-1b, it is so massive that it may better be described as a ‘failed star’ rather than a planet. A super hot, super dense ball of metallic hydrogen, KELT-1b is located so close to its star that it whips through an entire “yearly” orbit in a little over a day - all the while being blasted by six thousand times the radiation Earth receives from the sun. It is one of the most bizarre transiting companions ever detected. The planet is slightly larger than Jupiter, but contains 27 times the mass. Thus, it qualifies as a ‘failed star,’ or “brown dwarf.” “This is the first definitively ‘inflated’ brown dwarf found, and exactly how this happened is a complete mystery that should keep theorists busy for a while,” Gaudi said. KELT-1b is a strange world, indeed. If you could stand on the surface, the “sun” would take up one quarter of the sky overhead. Although it is made primarily of hydrogen, it is so massive and compressed that its density matches that of the densest naturally occurring element on Earth: osmium - a shiny, bluish metal found in platinum ore that is approximately twice as dense as lead. Because it orbits its host star once every 30 hours, a solar “year” on KELT-1b passes in a little more than one Earth day. And because it orbits so closely, it is blasted with 6,000 times the amount of stellar radiation than we are exposed to on Earth. Its surface temperature is likely above 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit (about 2,200 degrees Celsius). By comparison, the planet Mercury orbits our sun once every 88 days, and the hottest temperature on the surface reaches only 800 degrees Fahrenheit (more than 425 degrees Celsius).
* Fewer than 1 percent of the extrasolar planets ever discovered have been both extremely massive and extremely close to their host stars. “This is a great system for studying orbital dynamics,” said Siverd, who is the lead investigator on the KELT-1 discovery. “It has the strongest tides of any brown dwarf system found so far,” he added.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/06/two-new-alien-planets-discovered-in-andromeda-resets-the-bar-for-weird.html
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GlacierDogMapMe Finds Massive Amount of Water in a Surprising Place!
* In 2011, astronomers discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in a quasar more than 12 billion light-years away called APM 08279+5255! The water is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in Earth’s oceans.
* Quasar APM 08279+5255 is one of the most powerful known objects in the universe and has an energy output of 1,000 trillion suns.
* A quasar is powered by a massive black hole that steadily consumes a surrounding disk of gas and dust. As it sucks everything in, the quasar spews out huge amounts of energy.
* In this particular quasar, the water vapor is distributed around the black hole in a gaseous region spanning hundreds of light-years in size (a light-year is about six trillion miles). The environment around quasar APM 08279+5255 is thought to be unique since it is producing such a large mass of water. The quasar is bathing the surrounding gas in X-rays and infrared radiation, and the gas appears to be unusually warm and dense.
* By comparison, in our Milky Way, the mass of gaseous water is found in a limited number of regions and is some 4,000 times smaller than that in the quasar. Most of the water in the Milky Way galaxy is frozen into ice.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/06/image-of-the-day-12-billion-year-old-quasar-surrounded-by-140-trillion-times-the-water-in-earths-oce.html
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/apm_082795255_largest_water_mass_universe_so_far-81124
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GlacierDogMapMe is Still in Space - Where’s Stellar Nursery R136? Wow!
* This Hubble image (taken Oct. 20-27, 2009) displays the spectacular power of the Creator at work in the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood!
* This massive stellar grouping called R136 is in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a highly active star-forming region in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The icy-blue stars are among the most massive stars known.
* The Large Magellanic Cloud is 170,000 light-years away and is a member of the Local Group of Galaxies, which also includes the Milky Way. “The image, taken in ultraviolet, visible, and red light by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, spans about 100 light-years.”
Source: http://spacefellowship.com/news/art17051/incredible-new-hubble-image-full-of-stars.html
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![GlacierDog Leaves Earth - Where’s Exploded Star, E0102? Wow!
* “E0102 is the debris of a very massive star that exploded in the neighboring galaxy known as the Small Magellanic Cloud [SMC]. Chandra first looked at this object nearly ten years ago, just months after the telescope was launched. Analysis of new Chandra data gives information on the geometry of the supernova explosion. The best model based on the data is that the ejecta is shaped like a cylinder that we see end-on.”
* The Small Magellanic Cloud is a neighbor at only 190,000 light years from our Milky Way.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/e0102/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/e0102/e0102_smc.jpg
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