[singing] Oh black hole jet, keep on jettin'...
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Posted on 01/24/2025 6:19:56 AM PST by Strict9
Astronomers have, for the first time, watched the moment a feeding supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy spat out a jet of material at one-third of the speed of light. Plus, the structure is technically made up of two jets, each about half a light-year across.
The black hole in question, which has a mass around 1.4 billion times that of the sun, is located at the heart of a galaxy designated 1ES 1927+654. It's located about 270 million light-years away in the constellation Draco.
"The launch of a black hole jet has never been observed before in real-time
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
I thought mass went in but never came back out.
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?
I thought that only “Hawking radiation” could escape a black hole, nothing on this scale.
“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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So, this event actually took place 270 million years ago.?
Technically, it’s not coming out of the black hole itself, but the ring of material orbiting it closely.
Ah, you beat me to it, with the time line..
exactly and that’s taking into account that the speed of light has been constant since then which….. who knows.
What luck, good thing we didn’t miss it and have to wait for the next one.
can you imagine if you were near that thing and then suddenly, Lumos! (Harry Potter reference)
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.
This happened 270 million years ago...before the Age of Dinosaurs.
you know what? I’m pretty sure, with our guesses that we know at least as much as the “experts. “
“And Jet, I thought the only lonely place was on the moon”
There’s a Michelle Obama joke in there somewhere...
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.
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