‘Cloud’ a white fluffy looking structure that produces rain, perfectly right but until an altitude of 100 kilometers above the sea level because above that in the outer space, they are defined as clumpy areas of greater density than their surroundings.
Space telescopes have observed this cosmic clouds near those mysterious dense object from which no light is able to escape with masses equivalent to more than 100000 Suns. –Black Hole.
A supermassive black hole in the centre of a galaxy which gobbles up the gas and dust from the surrounding is known as Active Galactic Nucleus(AGN).
Often Black Holes are said to be closely related to a vacuum cleaner that sucks up everything that gets too close. But time has proven that the comparison is not exactly true because some of the nearby gas will be flung out by the black hole, creating a shell that expands over a thousand years.
But why does this happen?
This is because the area near the event horizon is extremely energetic, the high energy radiation from the fast-moving particles around the black hole can eject a significant amount of gas into the vastness of space.
Each cloud formed, would be small in the beginning but would extend well beyond one parsec.
Still, wondering how scientists would explain these clumps in deep space?
Well, they have come up with a computer model that would probably provide a solution to this mystery. The model shows that intense heat near the supermassive black hole can allow the gas to flow outward really fast, but in a way that will lead to clump formation.
Looks like the researchers and scientists are totally behind solving the mysteries of the black hole. Well, what’s next?? Probably no one knows… All we can do is to just wait patiently!!!
-Sraddha Suresh
Reference: NASA
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