NASA scientists spotted something moving seven times faster than the speed of light

Scientists at NASA have been forced to admit that they will have to revise their understanding of how our universe expands. The reason was the cosmic phenomenon with the index GW170817 – the merger of two neutron stars, which gave birth to a new black hole. It happened back in 2017, but it took years to analyze and make sense of the information.

Event GW170817 is unique in that, for the first time, scientists were able to see the process of black hole formation and measure its parameters. Neutron stars are the densest material objects in the universe; one teaspoon of their matter can weigh 4 billion tons. Therefore, they have a monstrous gravitational pull, which leaves them no chance of survival. Two such stars collide in the form of an explosion and generate a superdense object – a black hole. This process is accompanied by the ejection of matter and energy into space at enormous speeds, causing a surprising paradox.

When scientists pointed the Hubble telescope at GW170817, they saw that the streams of matter and energy flying toward us were incredibly fast – their speed was seven times the speed of light. After years of study, the theory of “superlative motion” was advanced. As the star’s ejection approaches the observer, light travels a shorter and shorter distance away from the star, which creates the illusion of incredibly fast motion. The real speed of radiation from a newborn black hole is 99.97% of the speed of light, which does not contradict the current physical models.