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

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

[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

[dfwgator]

It’s a great big universe
And we’re all really puny

We’re just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney

-The Animaniacs

[Redcitizen]

Ha. I must have missed that little tidbit. :)