NASA shares a spectacular new image straight from the galaxy: a set of rings around a black hole. Explanations.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory of the NASA and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory photographed an image showing huge rings around a black hole. This is a composite that illustrates the black hole surrounded by rings in X-rays, infrared and visible light. The black hole in question is a binary system called V404 Cygni. Located 7,800 light years from us, it extracts material from a star associated with a disc around the object which is invisible.
Rings around the black hole are produced by light echoes when a burst of X-rays from the black hole system bounced off clouds of dust between V404 Cygni and the planet, experts say. Terre. The rings thus reveal information about the dust located in our galaxy. Not visible in light, astronomers were able to see them in X-ray images.
This image finally shows us that many structures and phenomena of the Universe cannot yet be seen with the naked eye by Man. Not only impressive, this image also offers new information about the black hole, its accompanying star and dust clouds.
