Breaking NASA news Chandra X-Ray finds young, nearby black hole!!!

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This composite image shows a supernova within the galaxy M100 that may contain the youngest known black hole in our cosmic neighborhood. In this image, Chandra's X-rays are colored gold, while optical data from ESO's Very Large Telescope are shown in red, green, and blue, and infrared data from Spitzer are red. The location of the supernova, known as SN 1979C, is labeled.

SN 1979C was first reported to be seen by an amateur astronomer in 1979. The galaxy M100 is located in the Virgo Cluster about 50 million light years from Earth. This approximately 30-year age, plus its relatively close distance, makes SN 1979C the nearest example where the birth of a black hole has been observed, if the interpretation by the scientists is correct.

Data from Chandra, as well as NASA's Swift, the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and the German ROSAT observatory revealed a bright source of X-rays that has remained steady for the 12 years from 1995 to 2007 over which it has been observed. This behavior and the X-ray spectrum, or distribution of X-rays with energy, support the idea that the object in SN 1979C is a black hole being fed either by material falling back into the black hole after the supernova, or from a binary companion.

The scientists think that SN 1979C formed when a star about 20 times more massive than the Sun collapsed. It was a particular type of supernova where the exploded star had ejected some, but not all of its outer, hydrogen-rich envelope before the explosion, so it is unlikely to have been associated with a gamma-ray burst (GRB). Supernovas have sometimes been associated with GRBs, but only where the exploded star had completely lost its hydrogen envelope. Since most black holes should form when the core of a star collapses and a gamma-ray burst is not produced, this may be the first time that the common way of making a black hole has been observed.

The very young age of about 30 years for the black hole is the observed value, that is the age of the remnant as it appears in the image. Astronomers quote ages in this way because of the observational nature of their field, where their knowledge of the Universe is based almost entirely on the electromagnetic radiation received by telescopes.

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[itcouldbethem]

At the videos ending...What are you specifically challenging regarding creationist dogma?

[jblev2]

@itcouldbethem I am challenging the idea of 50 million year old light which should not exist if the universe were/is 6000 years old

[tommycarstensen]

Do you have a podcast?

[jblev2]

@tommycarstensen Too busy with working, with grad school and wrapping up another degree, thanks for watching though!

[jblev2]

@tubester4567 Space is also black...black on black crime is huge u know

[tubester4567]

Why do they call it a black hole....is space racist?

[itcouldbethem]

Thats why in a universe of billions of galaxies we have come across NOTHING Like us. We are ground zero. The other lifeform is not human, not flesh. Science agrees on 11 dimesions of existance. We know 4, the other 7 are not visible to us. They collide partcles at light squared looking for those dimensions (cern LHC). The non flesh entities interfered in our lives without permission and now we are seperated from our creator to prove a point once and forever.

[itcouldbethem]

The human timeline is estimated at 6000 years wheras the bible allows for the estimated 14-15 billion years of existance. The bible is for our benifit, we are the newest of all creations. EVERYTHING IS OLDER THAN US

[OccamsKatana]

@computarman - you do realize that pretty much every invention or technology you use was discovered by doing research and science that you would consider to have "very little application for the average person"

Have you even thought about what you are saying?

If you havent your ignorant, if you have you are dumb and a hypocrit.

[DaBluedude100]

@al1511 Look up multiverse theory.

[lagorbian]

@british123able i tried but i cant seem to find it XD

[british123able]

@lagorbian google it, no need to wonder

[lagorbian]

wonder wat the closest quasar is to our solar system.

[ABCforBeginners]

Nasa = Never A Straight Answer does much more bury evidence than anything else