A Sky Full of Possible Quasars
Quasars happen when black holes gorge themselves on dust.
This picture was taken by the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), with parts zoomed in on some potential quasars. WISE took a picture of the entire sky, twice. The information taken by WISE helps us in many aspects of space science. Searching through the data can show us Near Earth Objects we have not seen before, or give us information on things as far away as quasars.[1][2]
Quasars are caused by the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. These black holes are often billions of times the mass of the sun, and the quasars can shine as much as 10,000 times as bright as the Milky Way. What spectacular event causes these? Dust. As the dust gets closer to the black hole its speed approaches the speed of light, which causes it to heat up and give off electromagnetic radiation. [3]
SOoooo i wonder.... How much DUST is needed to burn and shine brighter than the sun?????
not very much, most quasars we notice outshine their entire galaxy (which are made up of billions to even trillions of stars).
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Thanks for keeping in touch! but I shall disagree just for now on the simple fact that I can not imagine all the dust in my house at the speed of light burning in hell (but I would love too ;-)
In a bit more serious note.... What is actually made of this "Dust" in Space and where is coming from? I ask because I guess all matter should be in some kind of gravitanional orbit or similar, no?
the dust is a mix of elements leftover from the big bang and elements that come from stars.
" I ask because I guess all matter should be in some kind of gravitanional orbit or similar, no?"
everything is effected by gravity, that doesn't mean it will ever repeat its orbit.
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My god! It's full of stars . . .
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