Pair of huge plasma jets spotted blasting out of gigantic black hole

Source: emugiant1

16 Comments

  1. I always thought that nothing could escape the gravity of a black hole. This is fascinating. I will now have to fall down the rabbit hole of black holes.

  2. That is bonkers. Us being to capture this. I understand there must be so many out there, but the fact that we got to see one, that’s amazing. I’m curious what impact this could have on our understanding.

  3. orangeyougladiator on

    Remember when Reddit used to be great for articles like this and have some semblance of information and conversation, and now it’s literally the same shit joke in every comment? I member.

  4. “Black hole jets are streams of charged ions, electrons and other particles. These are accelerated to nearly the speed of light by the immense magnetic fields around black holes. Such jets have been known about for more than a century, but until recently they were thought to be rare and not so extensive.”

    In case anyone else was like me and thought nothing could ever leave a black hole

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