Possible Jet Blown Shells Near Microquasar Cygnus X-1
Credit & Copyright: Steve Cullen (lightbuckets.com)
Posted on 06/08/2009 8:50:32 AM PDT by sig226
Explanation: What happens to matter that falls toward an energetic black hole? In the case of Cygnus X-1, perhaps little of that matter actually makes it in. Infalling gas may first collide not only with itself but with an accretion disk of swirling material surrounding the black hole. The result may be a microquasar that glows across the electromagnetic spectrum and produces powerful jets that expel much of the infalling matter back into the cosmos at near light speed before it can even approach the black hole's event horizon. Confirmation that black hole jets may create expanding shells has come recently from the discovery of shells surrounding Cygnus X-1. Pictured above on the upper right is one such shell quite possibly created by the jet of microquasar and black hole candidate Cygnus X-1. Rolling your cursor over the image will bring up an annotated version. The physical processes that create the black hole jets is a topic that continues to be researched.
I can't get the mouseover function to work on FR, so here's the annotated illustration.
the scale of the whole thing is mind boggling.
I see Jesus. No kidding. Right side.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that saw that.
yep, right above the upside down skull...
I get jet powered bubble nebulas sometimes while I’m soaking in the tub.
Same here
My wife hates when that happens to me. ;-)
In the bottom illustration, I see a flying saucer with a couple of searchlights... ;)
Now that you mention Him...
Thanks for the extra work to make life easier for those of us trapped in cubetown.
I see a bunch of sentences and words floating in space ... weird.
They’re calling it the Photoshop Nebula.
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