Hubble Telescope Spots A Cosmic Megamaser
- 7 years ago
The Milky Way is nice and all, but, as NASA recently pointed out, it’s no IRAS 16399-0937. Unlike ours, that galaxy has a megamaser.
The Milky Way is nice and all, but, as NASA recently pointed out, it’s no IRAS 16399-0937.
Unlike ours, that galaxy has a megamaser.
The extra fabulous feature is described as, “a process where some components within a galaxy (like gas clouds) are in the right stimulated physical condition to radiate intense energy.”
Their brightness is roughly 100 million times that of a plain, ordinary maser, which is the type we do have.
According to NASA, in examining the splendid megamaser using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists learned, “it hosts a double nucleus,” and that the one to the north, “…hosts a black hole with some 100 million times the mass of the sun.”
The Milky Way is nice and all, but, as NASA recently pointed out, it’s no IRAS 16399-0937.
Unlike ours, that galaxy has a megamaser.
The extra fabulous feature is described as, “a process where some components within a galaxy (like gas clouds) are in the right stimulated physical condition to radiate intense energy.”
Their brightness is roughly 100 million times that of a plain, ordinary maser, which is the type we do have.
According to NASA, in examining the splendid megamaser using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists learned, “it hosts a double nucleus,” and that the one to the north, “…hosts a black hole with some 100 million times the mass of the sun.”