Astronomers have been able-bodied to mention the powerful shock absorber undulation make during the cosmic pinball game of energetic particles slamming into the gas surrounding galaxy NCG 3079 . Thanks to the sharp middle of NASA’sChandra X - re scope , researchers were able-bodied to see the shock waves in two large superbubbles exploding from the core of the galaxy .
NCG 3079 is a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way located 67 million light - year from us . The two superbubbles are perpendicular to the disk of the wandflower and extend for 4,900 and 3,600 light - years each . These superbubbles might be the origin of the most powerful energetic cosmic rays .
What researchers have detected is the interaction between the gas pedal surround the galaxy and the particles accelerated by the central supermassive contraband golf hole and associated magnetic field . When the throttle and charged particles meet , stupor wave bod . When atom cover the shock undulation front , they get speed up by the tangle charismatic domain present and then they scoot out with energy a hundred times high than what we can produce in the largest particle collider .
As reported in theAstrophysical Journal , the team reckon that the wireless and X - beam of light emission from the bubbles that reserve Chandra to detect them is clear grounds that the particle must have been accelerated there , rather than simply dispel . They would have lost too much vim being transported from the galax core .
Researchers have a couple of ideas on how the particles are first throw off from the center of the galaxy . The supermassive black hole there might have gone through a eating period , and during the delirium of gobbling up material , some might have been fox out of the galaxy . Another account is lead formation feedback pushing throttle out of the core .
Researchers believe that these superbubbles might assure us something about our own galaxy . In 2010 , stargazer fall upon that the Milky Way had two large bubbles , stretch out above and below the mall of the wandflower for a total length of 50,000 light - year . They are known as theFermi Bubblesafter the gamma - re scope Fermi , which was instrumental in their find . However , the Fermi Bubbles are much older than what we see in NGC 3079 and more energetic .
