November 30, 2022
Rare Sighting of Luminous Jet Spewed by Supermassive Black Hole
What happens when a dying star flies too close to a supermassive black hole? In some extremely rare cases, the supermassive black hole launches “relativistic jets”—beams of matter traveling close to the speed of light—after destroying a star. Using NOEMA and several other observatories, astronomers just got the chance to observe one of these rare cosmic events.
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