For the first time, an international team of astronomers has managed to observe an unexpected phenomenon in real time: the emergence of a black hole jet. The cosmic event was recorded in the galaxy 1ES 1927+654, located 270 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco. The research was published in the scientific journal broadcasting Astrophysics Journal Letters (AJL).
Jets, or polar jet streams, are powerful plasma streams escaping from the poles of black holes at near-light speeds.
According to scientists, the jet discovered in the Draco constellation moves at speeds of up to 30% of the speed of light. It began to take shape in 2018, following an unusual surge in activity.
The discovery’s authors noted that the newborn jets emitted from 1ES 1927+654 were relatively small compared to the massive jet structures in some of the most active galactic nuclei where giant black holes are active.
Astronomers think the activation of a black hole in a distant galaxy could be caused by an event called a tidal disruption event, which occurs when a star, gas cloud, or other massive object gets too close to a gravitational funnel and artificially increases its brightness over several years. .
Previously, scientists accidentally discovered filmed Explosion of a giant black hole at the center of galaxy M87.
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Source: Gazeta

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