Galaxy-size jet from monster black hole blasts mystery object in deep space (video)

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Galaxy-size jet from monster ****** hole blasts mystery object in deep space (video)

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Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/D. Bogensberger et al; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk;

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescope have witnessed a massive ****** hole jet slam into an unknown object in space. Astronomers have seen ****** hole jets blasting cosmic objects before, but this one appears different from these events.

The discovery came in the form of a strange mark in the bright jet erupting from the supermassive

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at the heart of the galaxy

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(Cen A), located about 12 million light-years from Earth. The new research also revealed that at several points along its galaxy-scale length, the jet of high-energy particles from this ****** hole is traveling at near-light speed.

Though the jet of Cen A’s

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has been well-studied in the past, the Chandra data revealed something new and unexpected about this outflow.

The source of X-rays in Cen A known as

The team found the emission that contects to a bright V-shaped source of X-rays in Cen A. This source has been labeled “C4,” and it is located close to the origin point of the ****** hole jet.

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, the “arms” of this V-shaped emission are around 700

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long. For context, that’s around 175 times the distance between the sun and the closest star to the solar system,

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A golden swirl with a ****** orb at its heart

What we know and what we don’t know about this ****** hole jet

Jets from supermassive ****** holes don’t come from the ****** holes themselves but from around them. These cosmic titans suggest that because they are marked by a boundary called an “

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,” at which not even light moves fast enough to escape. Nothing with mass can move as fast as light, which means nothing can escape a ****** hole.

Some ****** holes are surrounded by flattened clouds of gas and dust called “accretion disks” that gradually feed them. Not all this material is destined to fall into the maw of the central ****** hole, however, as ****** holes are “messy eaters.”

This is because powerful magnetic fields around the ****** hole can channel matter to its poles. From there, these particles are accelerated to high speeds and high energies and are blasted out as astrophysical jets that can stretch out for millions of light-years.

Blue filaments from which a bright orange jet emerges

While astronomers have a good idea about the physics that launch the jet from the supermassive ****** holes at the heart of Cen A, they don’t know what object it is they blasted. That is because it is too far away for even the most powerful current telescopes to distinguish in detail.

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This is not the first time that scientists have seen a ****** hole jet blasting an object in space. These other target objects have included clouds of gas and even unfortunate stars.

This collision stands distinct from those events because while they have produced elliptical “blobs” in X-ray images, this event created a v-shaped structure.

The team will now attempt to determine why this particular collision has produced a strange shape. This investigation will be conducted with

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, the only X-ray telescope currently sensitive enough to see this collision feature.

The team’s research is published in

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