A black hole is rotating in space with devastating speed, is present in the center of our galaxy, is changing space time
There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, known as Sagittarius A. Now a new revelation has come regarding this. According to the new study, it is rotating so fast that it is changing the space-time around it. Space-time is a four-dimensional fabric that bends around large objects in space, such as planets and stars. A team of physicists observed the black hole using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, which is 26,000 light-years from Earth.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is a space telescope designed to detect X-ray emissions from hot regions of the universe. They examined radio waves and X-ray emissions from material swirling around the black hole. This is known as the accretion disk. This method helped him calculate the rotation speed of Sagittarius A. The findings related to this were published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on 21 October.
Changes happening in space time
Researchers have confirmed that the black hole is rotating, a phenomenon known as the lens Thirring effect. ‘The lens-Thirring effect occurs when a black hole stretches space-time with its rotation,’ said Ruth Daly, lead author of the study and professor of physics at Penn State University. A decade ago he devised the outflow method. ‘With this spin, Sagittarius A is dramatically altering space-time in its vicinity,’ he said.
Nothing to worry about
He gives the example, ‘We are used to living in a world where all spatial dimensions are equal. Where the distance between ceiling, wall and floor seems linear and uniform. It doesn’t change anyone among themselves. But the rapid rotation of the black hole is changing this. It takes over the space time around it, which will make it look like a football. Daly said that there is no need to worry about changes in space-time. But this phenomenon can be very useful for astronomers.
