Chandra teams up with Hubble for Ultramassive Black Hole

[arkmundi]

Powerful Black Hole Beast Blasts Galaxy-Sized Gaps in Space Discover.com Jan 23, 2014 by Jason Major

The image above is a composite from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows the x-ray glow from an enormous cloud of gas at the center of a cluster of galaxies. This cluster, named RX J1532.9+3021 (its friends call it RX J1532), is 3.9 billion light-years away and extremely massive – about a thousand trillion times more massive than our sun (and about a thousand times more massive than our entire galaxy.)

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It ranks as the greatest image every recorded. First, there's the observation power of multiple telescopes including the space based Hubble (near ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared spectra) and Chandra (X-ray). Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey

The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey or GOODS is an astronomical survey combining deep observations from three of NASAs Great Observatories: the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory along with data from other space-based telescopes, such as XMM Newton, and some of the worlds most powerful ground-based telescopes. GOODS is intended to enable astronomers to study the formation and evolution of galaxies in the distant (and hence early) universe.

Then they find this Ultramassive black hole capable of swallowing whole galaxies. What a time to be alive!

 

[amberwolf]

That's not even very far away, astronomically speaking. The light we're seeing from that started on it's way here *after* the solar system began formation, so compared to most other things out there, it's practically a neighbor!

 

[arkmundi]

It gives me great comfort knowing that your, my and our collective fate, is exactly the same, to get sweeped up into a massive black hole. The universal equity of it! All our particles co-mingled together like that! What a cosmic orgy.

 

[zener]

So what we see there has happened 3.9 billion years from now and here.
But what is there now? 8)

 

[Joseph C.]

So what we see there has happened 3.9 billion years from now and here.
But what is there now? 8)

Probably nothing but a black hole instead of a quasar.

 

[bronz]

I love astronomy.

 

[Dauntless]

What a time to be alive. So great to know that WE could be swallowed up.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/24/stephen-hawking-black-holes-event-horizons_n_4658220.html