According to an observation from NASA, winds from super massive "Black Holes" can rapidly change their temperature. The hot gas steaming out from the region can cause these extreme changes, NASA made this observation through its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array.
Monster black holes are believed to be embedded in the middle of most large galaxies, including the Milky Way. These black holes feed from the surrounding disk of gas, dust and other material, which is called an accretion disk. Due to this reason black holes are caused to radiate light as per Space.
The winds of the black hole travel around a quarter of the speed of light and they have the potential to disturb the formation of stars in their wake. According to a study scientists have observed winds for a nearby black hole interacting with radiation, this radiation was coming from the black hole's edge. By using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array along with the European Space Agency's XMM Newton telescope scientists were able to determine this fact.
They repeatedly took x-rays from the black hole's edge in order to study the temperatures of these winds. This helped to figure out the chemical elements such as magnesium and iron present in the winds. There was also wavelength's of light in the x-ray spectrum and it displayed holes known as the absorption features.
This revealed more about the winds composition, the team of scientists found out that these absorption features kept disappearing and reappearing in a span of few hours. Given the opportunity to study the properties and patterns of these winds scientists can learn more about the impact of the winds on the evolution of galaxies.
Researchers are planning to conduct more observations to learn how these winds are formed, their source of power and how long they last. This has been a huge step to understand that super massive black holes can swiftly change temperature due to winds.
