Destruction wind Galaxies
Infrared observatory Herschel space belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA) has detected the movement of the wind which consists of molecules of gas flowing away from the galaxy.
The wind that has been monitored over the years is thought to have enough power to destroy the galaxy consists of gas and halt star formation early on.
Herschel detected the wind is extraordinary. Most of blowing hard, with speeds in excess of 1,000 kilometers per second. The wind was 10 thousand times faster than the storms that blow in the Earth.
"This is the first time that such molecular gas flow can be observed clearly in a galaxy," said Echard Sturm, researchers from the Max-Planck Institute, who chaired the study, as quoted by Daily Galaxy.
These findings are important because stars form from molecular gas. While this wind flow steal materials belonging to galaxies is needed to make new stars. "If hembusannya strong enough, they could even stop the total star formation,"
"With Herschel and of research, concluded that up to 1,200 times the mass of our sun is lost every year due to the devastating winds.
The amount is equal to the depletion of the gas supply for star forming galaxies belonging between one and 100 million years into the future. In fact, the disruption of star formation have an adverse effect on the galaxy.
The wind itself can be caused by spending particles and intense light of a new star or it could be the shock wave from the explosion of old stars.
Alternatively, the wind can be triggered by the radiation caused by substances that are spinning around the black hole, in the center of the galaxy.
Infrared observatory Herschel space belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA) has detected the movement of the wind which consists of molecules of gas flowing away from the galaxy.
The wind that has been monitored over the years is thought to have enough power to destroy the galaxy consists of gas and halt star formation early on.
Herschel detected the wind is extraordinary. Most of blowing hard, with speeds in excess of 1,000 kilometers per second. The wind was 10 thousand times faster than the storms that blow in the Earth.
"This is the first time that such molecular gas flow can be observed clearly in a galaxy," said Echard Sturm, researchers from the Max-Planck Institute, who chaired the study, as quoted by Daily Galaxy.
These findings are important because stars form from molecular gas. While this wind flow steal materials belonging to galaxies is needed to make new stars. "If hembusannya strong enough, they could even stop the total star formation,"
"With Herschel and of research, concluded that up to 1,200 times the mass of our sun is lost every year due to the devastating winds.
The amount is equal to the depletion of the gas supply for star forming galaxies belonging between one and 100 million years into the future. In fact, the disruption of star formation have an adverse effect on the galaxy.
The wind itself can be caused by spending particles and intense light of a new star or it could be the shock wave from the explosion of old stars.
Alternatively, the wind can be triggered by the radiation caused by substances that are spinning around the black hole, in the center of the galaxy.