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Most luminous galaxy ripping itself apart: Study
The most luminous galaxy in the universe- dubbed W2246-0526 is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to a study.
New York: The most luminous galaxy in the universe- dubbed W2246-0526 is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to a study.
Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), an astronomical interferometer of radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of Chile, a team of researchers found that the obscured quasar 12.4 billion light years away is "so chaotic that it is ripping itself apart".
Previous studies with NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft revealed that the galaxy is glowing in infrared light as intensely as approximately 350 trillion suns.The galaxy has a voraciously feeding supermassive black hole at its centre that is completely obscured behind a thick blanket of dust.
This galaxy's startling brightness is powered by a tiny, yet incredibly, energetic disk of gas that is being superheated as it spirals in on the supermassive black hole. The light from this blazingly bright accretion disk is then absorbed by the surrounding dust, which re-emits the energy as infrared light.
The astronomers compare this turbulent action to a pot of boiling water. If these conditions continue, they say, the galaxy's intense infrared radiation will boil away all of its interstellar gas.
