NASA's Hubble Telescope captures black hole's 'shadow beams' spilling out

In a recent study, Astromers have observed magnificent large-scale dark and light rays beaming out of bright center of IC 5063 galaxy with help of NASA's Hubble Telescope. According to researchers an internal tube-shaped ring, or 'torus', of dusty material surrounding active galaxy’s central black hole is casting its show into . study furr revealed that exchange of light and show may occur when light emitted by supermassive black hole strikes torus.

Light creates brilliant cone-shaped rays

 light streams through gaps in torus and creates brilliant cone-shaped rays, researchers said while ding that  denser patches in torus block some of light that casts long, dark shows through galaxy.

An official release by NASA quoted Dr. Peter Maksym, an astromer at Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as saying: "I’m most excited by show of torus idea because it’s a really cool effect that I don’t think we’ve seen before in ims, although it has been hyposized."

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"Scientifically, it's showing us something that is hard—usually impossible—to see directly. We kw this phemen should happen, but in this case, we can see effects throughout galaxy. Kwing more about geometry of torus will have implications for anybody trying to understand behavior of supermassive black holes and ir environments. As a galaxy evolves, it is shaped by its central black hole," Maksym ded.

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'Studying torus is important'

researchers furr claimed that studying torus is important because it funnels material toward black hole. If 'show' interpretation is accurate, dark rays provide indirect evidence that disk in IC 5063 could be very thin, which explains why light is leaking out all around structure, researchers said in release.

Observations of similar black holes by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory detected X-rays leaking out of holes in torus, making structure appear like Swiss cheese, Maksym said.  holes may be caused by disk being torqued by internal forces, causing it to warp, he ded. It's possible that warping creates big eugh gaps for some of light to shine through, and as torus rotates, beams of light could sweep across galaxy like lighthouse beams through fog, he said.

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