Aug

22

Astronomers solve 100 million-year-old galactic mystery

Filed Under Space | Posted By Jennifer Sullivan |

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Astronomers utilizing the Hubble Space Telescope have cracked a 100 million-year-old puzzle of how giant structures in deep space are stopped from decomposing. According to the study, published in scientific journal Nature, the stunning images show huge, thread-like “filaments” of gas, which come out from the centre of a galaxy called NGC 1275, positioned some 235 million light years away from Earth.

They should have exploded, detached and vanished over a very short period of time or fell down under their own gravity to construct stars. Even more bamboozling is the fact that they have not been split apart by the powerful tidal pull of gravity in the clusters core

The study led by Andy Fabian from the University of Cambridge, UK, recommends that the magnetic fields grasp the charged gas in place and oppose forces that would deform the filaments. This skeletal structure has been able to include and sway these strange long threads for over 100 million years. Fabian said that we can watch that the magnetic fields are important for these complex filaments both for their existence and for their reliability.

NGC 1275 is one of the contiguous giant elliptical galaxies and lies at the centre of the Perseus Cluster of galaxies. It is an energetic galaxy hosting the biggest black hole at its core which drives bubbles of radio-wave releasing material into the surrounding group gas, the Science Daily online said in a report.



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