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Black hole shoots a plasma beam through space. Captured by NASA.
Black hole shoots a plasma beam through space. Captured by NASA.
Black hole shoots a plasma beam through space. Captured by NASA.
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Can anyone do the math on how fucking large that is?
It’s mind blowing to think about what’s happening out there in space
>This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy’s 6.5-billion-solar-mass central black hole. The blowtorch-like jet seems to cause stars to erupt along its trajectory. These novae are not caught inside the jet, but are apparently in a dangerous neighbourhood nearby. During a recent 9-month survey, astronomers using Hubble found twice as many of these novae going off near the jet as elsewhere in the galaxy. The galaxy is the home of several trillion stars and thousands of star-like globular star clusters.
[Source](https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/09/Hubble_s_view_of_M87_galaxy)
Imagine cruising around in space and a black hole fart takes your fleet out
This is larger news than it is.
Could someone explain? Why would a black hole shoot plasma, and more important, how?
Wouldn’t the plasma be coming from beyond the event horizon?
You mean death ray…this is awesome and frightening at the same time.
Best money shot I’ve seen
We are so insignificant.
Looks like the special effects of Star Trek The Original Series were fairly spot on
What’s really gonna cook your noodle is when you realize this happened at least 1500 years ago.
Holy shit
Ate too much Stars and Galaxies
Black hole probably felt so good after…
Astrophysics nerd here! This is what is known as an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN), a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy that is actively consuming matter. My Black Holes professor actually specialized in their research – I’m shooting him an email as we speak!
That bright light in the center is a quasar – a class of supermassive black holes that is gobbling up an insane amount of matter. The frictional forces at work as the matter spirals inward causes it to glow intensely, not just brighter than a star, but brighter than galaxies with billions of stars. There are galaxies we cannot see without blocking out the light of their central quasars because the black hole outshines it – perplexingly, this makes black holes both the darkest and brightest phenomena in the universe!
Those plasma jets are matter being spewed at relativistic speeds from the rotational poles of the black hole – the distance is 23 million light years across, or 7 MegaParsecs. For context, the distance from the sun to Pluto is about 5-6 light**hours**, this jet is long enough to span 140 Milky Way galaxies across – all coming out of the end of a black hole!
This actually challenges our current understanding of AGNs a little. I’d love to talk more about it for anyone curious, going to see what my old professor has to say about it!
Would we be able to estimate how far that plasma beam is shooting off into space? It’s incredible to think of how big that plasma beam actually is.
That’s no black hole, it’s a space station.
The story is true but the picture is not, and it was observatories doing math (not NASA) that ‘captured’ this…
After capture, the plasma beam was radio tagged and released back into the void of space.
This was Goku 100%!!!
The only good bug is a dead bug…. Would you like to know more?
You can’t fool me, that is obviously Vegeta using Final Flash.
He is coming