【探索世界】超大质量黑洞(28/30)
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intrigued
Andrea
vortex
the Earth
emission
equivalent
catastrophe
One idea that I'm particularly intrigued by at the moment is the idea that perhaps the black hole is, is feeding more right now.
Andrea thinks that the light she sees is coming from hot gas being sucked into the vortex of the black hole. So if our black hole has started feeding again, could this affect the Earth, even though we're 24,000 light years away?
We're in absolutely no danger of being eaten by the supermassive black hole. And in fact if we do think the black hole is going through a slightly large feeding at the moment, it's tiny, it's tiny compared to what other galaxy, galaxies are doing, so in fact still this is a very quiet black hole. In spite of the fact that there might be new emission from it, it's still extremely low.
Our black hole is merely having the equivalent of a small snack feeding on a wisp of gas that's strayed too close. The black hole stopped growing billions of years ago. Only a major catastrophe could make it fire up again, something violent enough to hurl stars from the safety of our galaxy's edge into its deadly heart. And we now know that one day this catastrophe could happen.
