Have you ever wondered what a black hole sounds like? Who would ever think that black holes have sounds? (Photo : ESA/Getty Images) This the European Space Agency photgraph released October 25, 2001 shows a supermassive black hole in the core of galaxy named MCG-6-30-15 as seen through the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) satellite.
Scientists have detected light echoing from behind a black hole for the first time. Caspar/Pixabay
If you know what a black hole is, you re probably aware that it can contain as much mass as billions of stars, compressed into a much smaller space, and have such a powerful gravitational pull that even light can t escape its grasp.
But even though it s not possible to see into a black hole, it is possible to see light that s coming from
behind one. In a paper published July 28, 2021, in the scientific journal Nature, researchers from Stanford University, Penn State University and Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) describe the first-ever observation of light apparently being emitted from the far side of a supermassive black hole located in I Zwicky 1, a galaxy 800 million light-years away from Earth.
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