Water has been found in Deep Space

In 2011, scientists announced that they had found a massive reservoir of water in space many times larger than our oceans.

It was in the vicinity of a black hole. So what is going on?

Water everywhere!

We used to think that water was rare in the universe but now we are founding it all over the place even coming out of stars including our own sun.

On Mars, Pluto and on various moons.

It’s important to note that it is coming out in discrete jets. So it’s not sheets of ice melting of a comet for example – these are jets.

Comet Jets. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0

The same pattern at every level

Back in 2006, I published that the same mechanism that creates thunderstorms is also behind galactic black holes. There is antimatter, gamma-ray bursts and electrons at almost the speed of light.

Image: NASA, James Gordon Graham

Storms also produce water in the form of rain and I was a bit concerned to say that water is produced in this way in galaxies too.

However, I didn’t have to wait long as scientists soon found water across the universe and even been produced by black holes themselves.

Credit: Pixabay

Conclusions

So there you have it, water is being produced by black holes at every level of the universe.

We have even found a reservoir of water deep in the Earth suggesting that this is where our oceans actually come from.

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