Chapter 355: Kagan Tuya

After arriving near the wormhole, the Eternal Night spacecraft underwent several days of orbit and attitude adjustments.

"All staff, please take your seat, in ten minutes, the Eternal Night spacecraft will pass through the wormhole."

"No. 10 Attitude Adjustment Engine Starting ......"

"No. 2 Capital Adjustment Engine Starting ......"

"No. 5 Capital Transfer Engine Starting ......"

The Eternal Night spacecraft slowly turned its massive hull and aimed its bow at the wormhole 100,000 kilometers away.

"Take care to keep the output power ......"

"Good attitude, can start the main engine ......"

"Eternal Night...... Three ...... forward"

A blue-purple glow emits from the tail of the Hall thruster, and a high-speed plasma stream is ejected behind it, and the spacecraft begins to start at full power and enter a state of acceleration.

"100,000 kilometers away from the wormhole!"

"Fifty thousand kilometers."

"Ten thousand kilometers."

"A thousand kilometers."

"Ten kilometers."

"Contact Countdown, Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One......"

Pang Xuelin: Their position was in the first third of the Eternal Night's main axle thruster.

Therefore, they can clearly see that the moment the bow of the Eternal Night comes into contact with the wormhole, the pitch-black space on the surface of the wormhole is like a stone being thrown into the calm water, sending out a circle of ripples.

But this kind of scene only stayed in Pang Xuelin's eyes for less than two seconds, and then they also plunged headlong into this bizarre world.

The soft white light from the lights inside the ship suddenly broke down into a rainbow of colors.

The space around the bridge was ghosted, and all the equipment inside the ship gave him a great sense of depth and inclusiveness.

Although Pang Xuelin has already felt the depth brought by the infinite space of the high-dimensional space in the wormhole, when he experiences this scene again, he still has a dreamlike feeling.

This was even more true of Murphy, Billy, Little Brand, and the others, who one by one firmly anchored themselves to their seats, looking at everything around them with some horror.

Thankfully, the process only lasted a few minutes.

It was much shorter than the last time Pang Xuelin took the rescue capsule through the wormhole.

With a slight shock to the hull of the spaceship, those colorful rays of light instantly dissipated, and the objects in the spaceship that showed a sense of endless depth seemed to be dominated by some kind of force, and instantly returned to their original state.

Outside the porthole, a golden glow penetrated through and shone on the podium.

Pang Xuelin unbuckled his seat belt and took the lead in front of the porthole.

Murphy, Brand Jr., Dr. Mann, Billy, Aemond, and others came behind him one after another.

"My God!"

Dr. Mann couldn't help but draw a cross on his chest, and let out an exclamation as he looked at the black hole that was emitting hot light radiation into space in the distance.

"Kagantuya!"

Murphy said on the side.

Pang Xuelin nodded, and what appeared in front of them was a super-large black hole composed of a black hole body, light, accretion disk, etc.

The black part in the middle is the shadow of the black hole, about twice the event horizon.

The outer thin circle of light is the photon circle of the black hole.

A huge accretion disk revolves around a black hole, and the accretion disk is composed of various substances and gases that rotate at high speed and slowly fall towards the black hole, and become extremely bright due to strong collisions and radiation.

The accretion disk above the black hole appears to be much larger and brighter than below.

Pang Xuelin knows that the top of the black hole is actually the distal end of the accretion disk, and the bottom is the bottom of the distal end of the accretion disk, and the gravitational field of the black hole distorts the propagation path of light, which forms such a bizarre phenomenon.

NASA has sent probes to this world before, and the final conclusion is that the mass of this black hole is 100 million times the mass of the sun, and its event horizon radius has reached 295 million kilometers.

You know, one astronomical unit, that is, the distance from the Earth to the Sun is almost 150 million kilometers, and the radius of the event horizon of this black hole is equivalent to two astronomical units, so imagine how huge this black hole is.

At least in Pang Xuelin's impression, the Sagittarius A black hole is more than 40 million times the mass of the sun.

Only the black hole at the core of the Great Nebula in Andromeda has such volume and mass.

But the Kagantuya in front of him is definitely not the black hole in the Andromeda Nebula.

The reason is very simple, on a clear night on Earth, in places where light pollution is not serious, we can see a sky full of stars, most of them are relatively close to the solar system, the closest is Proxima Centauri, about 4.22 light years, the South Gate two binary stars (and Proxima Centauri are a triple star system) about 4.37 light years, Barnard is about 6 light years away from us, and Sirius is about 8.7 light years away from us.

If the number of stars per cubic light-year is calculated, there are only about 0.004 stars per cubic light-year of space near the Sun on average, and it is generally considered that the star density in globular clusters is relatively high, where the star density is about 2 stars per cubic light-year, which is equivalent to 500 times the density of stars in space near the Sun.

But around the galactic center, astronomers have observed that there are as many as 42 million stars in the space of the very center of the Milky Way (3.26 light years), or 289,000 stars per cubic light-year, which is 72 million times higher than the density of stars near the solar system.

At this stellar density, if the Earth were near the galactic center, we could probably see millions of stars brighter than Sirius, and the brightness at night would be about the same as that of the day when sunlight was shining.

If it is a black hole in the constellation M31 in Andromeda, it will be even more exaggerated.

But there was no such scene in front of me.

The Eternal Night spacecraft is at least 10 billion kilometers away from Kagantuya, and Pang Xuelin can clearly observe the sparse starry sky around Kagantuya, which is far from the stellar density imagined.

In the vicinity of Kagantuya, the only thing that can be observed is a dark red planet the size of a ping-pong ball and another main-sequence star similar to the Sun in the distance.

Together with Kagantuya, these two stars form a three-star system.

But because of the sheer mass of Kagantuya, the two stars move in a circular motion around Kagantuya like ordinary planets.

"Alright, let's all go back to our posts and release the probe satellites to explore our galaxy in all directions."

"Understood!"

With Pang Xuelin's order, everyone in the spacecraft entered an unprecedented state of busyness, especially the visible light telescope and radio telescope carried by the "Eternal Night" ship, and carried out large-scale observations of Kagantuya and the major galaxies nearby.

But the results of the observation surprised everyone.