Astronomers watch monster black hole spit out a light-year-long jet

Space.com ^ | 1-23-25 | Robert Lea

[Strict9]

Black hole in the constellation of Draco the dragon.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I thought mass went in but never came back out.

[Strict9]

you and I both. I guess this is mass that has accelerated towards the event horizon and not gone past? I guess once anything goes past the horizon that’s it but what do I know?

[FatherofFive]

I thought that only “Hawking radiation” could escape a black hole, nothing on this scale.

[Lurker]

“The launch of a black hole jet has never been observed before in real-time.”

Actually it happened 270,000,000 years ago.

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[unread]

"It's located about 270 million light-years away."

So, this event actually took place 270 million years ago.?

[Salman]

Technically, it’s not coming out of the black hole itself, but the ring of material orbiting it closely.

[unread]

Ah, you beat me to it, with the time line..

[Strict9]

exactly and that’s taking into account that the speed of light has been constant since then which….. who knows.

[epluribus_2]

What luck, good thing we didn’t miss it and have to wait for the next one.

[Strict9]

can you imagine if you were near that thing and then suddenly, Lumos! (Harry Potter reference)

[Chewbarkah]

I sure don’t know, but logically something about the “jet” had a strong enough repulsion force for the black hole to reject it. Or something was pulling material away from the black hole.

[Verginius Rufus]

"When you're a Jet, you're Jet all the way..."

This happened 270 million years ago...before the Age of Dinosaurs.

[Strict9]

you know what? I’m pretty sure, with our guesses that we know at least as much as the “experts. “

[BipolarBob]

“And Jet, I thought the only lonely place was on the moon”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks.

See Innermost stable circular orbit.

[BigFreakinToad]

There’s a Michelle Obama joke in there somewhere...

[gundog]

Nothing is as it appears. The light from the star you see as Antares left there about the time Columbus left for the New World.

[SunkenCiv]

[singing] Oh black hole jet, keep on jettin'...

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[Redcitizen]

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