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January 13, 2018

Astronomers Spot Supermassive Black Hole

‘Burping’ Twice After ‘Feasting’ On Gas

Scientists from the University of Colorado believe that this is

due to the black hole consuming two separate "meals" of gas.

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It’s not unusual when a supermassive black hole “burps,”

or releases energy from the gas it consumes. But new
findings from a team led by astronomers from the
University of Colorado adds to the evidence that it is
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observed in a distant black hole located some 800 million
light-years away from our planet.

According to University of Colorado Boulder assistant

professor and study lead author Julie Comerford, the
supermassive black hole in question looks to have
“burped” twice over a span of approximately 100,000 MUST READS
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of time in a relation to the history of the universe.
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The researchers, who documented their findings earlier

this month in the Astrophysical Journal, made use of data
from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray
Observatory, the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and
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cloud of gas that had stretched about 30,000 light-years
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“Imagine someone eating dinner at their kitchen table and

they’re eating and burping, eating and burping,”
Comerford explained.

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“You walk in the room and you notice there’s an old burp still
hanging in the air from the appetizer course. Meanwhile, they’re
eating the main course and they let out a new burp that’s rocking
the kitchen table.”

Comerford and her team believe that the burps came from
two distinct “meals,” with the abundance of gas possibly
having originated from the time the black hole’s host
galaxy collided with a neighboring system.

According to Comerford, the supermassive black hole’s

double burp represents a process of “feasting, burping,
and napping,” then repeating the same cycle all over
again. This backs up previous research that suggested
black holes go through such cycles, shining brightly while
feasting and burping, then going dark when it’s time to
take a “nap.”

Although it’s not often that supermassive black holes emit

dual burps, Phys.org pointed out that our home galaxy,
the Milky Way, has burped at least once in its long history.
Based on observations from the Fermi Gamma-ray
Observatory, a separate team of astronomers discovered a
similar burp from the Milky Way in 2010, as gas jets
known as “Fermi bubbles” were found shining in the
electromagnetic spectrum’s gamma-ray and X-ray
portions. Comerford explained that this is consistent with
the bubbles that are usually seen after a black hole feeds
on gas.

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