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(CNN) – Astronomers have first discovered two galaxies in the pain of a deep space “due.”
Using combination observations from ground-based telescopes for nearly four years, researchers have seen distant galaxy neighbors charging towards each other at more than 1.1 million miles per hour (1.8 million kilometers per hour). One repeatedly equipped with the other highly radiation beams, dispersing the gas clouds and weakening its ability to form new stars.
“So we call it “a universe idiot,” said Paschier Notardem, a researcher at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics in Chile and the Institute of Cire, France. He was part of the team that made the discovery.
It was a distant snapshot of two galaxies in the process that Noterdaeme and his colleagues spied on It fuses into one large galaxy 11 billion light years away. Findings explained in a study published in Nature on Wednesday provide an unusual view of the previous era of the universe, where the formation of the universe and the merger of galaxies are more common.
In collaboration with the very large telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory and the large millimeter/sub-millimeter array (ALMA) of Atacama in Chile, researchers have discovered that “aggressive” Galaxy piercing radiation is inside the quasar, within its bright core.
According to NASA, the intense gravity effect of black holes draws material towards it in an energetic way that heats up dust and gas to millions of degrees and brightens. These bright materials spiral around the black hole before they enter, forming what is called an “additive disk,” and jets of energy material emit a beam away from the center.
Each explosion of quasar’s ultraviolet rays is about 1,000 times stronger than our Milky Way radiation, and research shows that several hydrogen molecules in the “victim” galaxy star-forming nursery split and disperse.
A large amount of gas and dust reaches a critical mass and collapses under its own gravity to form stars. However, the researchers observed that after being dispersed by radiation, the clouds were neither dense nor large enough to create new stars.
Additional material from the victim’s galaxy is drawn within reach of the ultra-large black hole, fueling the quasar with more energy. Researcher Sergei Barashev, a researcher at the Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, said Sergei Barashev, a researcher who could give the molecular cloud an opportunity to reform, said quasars are known to essentially “switch off.”
“It’s really the first time I’ve seen the radiation effect of a quasar on the molecular gases of a nearby galaxy,” Barashev said. Until now, this effect has been theorized, but not confirmed by direct observation.
Scientists initially wanted to observe this particular quasar more closely. This provides clues about their internal composition, temperature and activity due to their unique features among thousands of low-resolution spectra, such as fingerprints of distant objects.
“It’s really (like) finding the needle in the haystack,” Balashev said. However, the light from the quasar is so powerful that it is often better than your host galaxy, making it difficult to observe other galaxies nearby.
According to NASA, very dynamic bright quasars are rare. Only about 1,000 of these objects are known to exist in the early days of the universe. Anniek Gloudemans is a postdoctoral researcher at Noirlab at the National Science Foundation, previously informing CNN via email.
“In the beginning, we knew there was a molecular gas between us and the quasar (of an offensive galaxy). It only detected that there were actually two galaxies when we started looking at it with a larger telescope,” Noterdaeme said.
Although the duel pairs appear to overlap in the low-resolution spectrum, Alma’s high-resolution imaging capabilities revealed that the galaxies are actually thousands of light years apart. Using a very large telescope, researchers were able to study the density and distance of gases affected by the radiation of the quasar.
Light from these objects came from billions of light years away in the early universe, so it is possible that the two galaxies have already fused together, but there is no way to ensure it, Balashev said.
Scientists believe that quasars and galaxies were once much more common early in the universe’s life, said Dong Woo Kim, an astrophysicist at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Center for Smithsonian Astrophysics.
Galaxies were fused as they were pulled towards each other by gravity, and the universe was packed more densely. Over time, the universe expands, with more galaxies being combined into larger galaxies, Kim said.
Noterdaeme added that it was an interesting period in the universe 10 billion years ago, and astronomers would call this period when stars were rapidly formed as “the midday of the universe.”
Although not often, the Galaxy mergers are happening all the time, Kim said. Even our own Milky Way is expected to merge with the Andromeda galaxy in billions of years, but the research team is not yet certain whether the “cosmic horse yard” phenomenon is a common feature when the two galaxies collide to form something bigger.
“Studying is an exciting field,” Kim said. “Studies like this can teach us more about the birth of new galaxies and observe how they evolve over time.”