Category: quasar

Scientists visualize a black hole plasma jet in unprecedented detail

Post author By Randall
Post date April 7, 2020
Categories In astronomy, black hole, blazar, event horizon telescope, News, quasar, Science, Space, supermassive black hole, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] When a supermassive black hole features such jets, it’s classified as a blazar. Astronomers posit that the magnetic poles of the black hole channel the energy up from the accretion disc and shoot it out with a tremendous amount of energy — the jet captured in the image is traveling at about 0.995 times […]

X-rays help astronomers detect spinning black holes

Post author By Randall
Post date July 7, 2019
Categories In astronomy, black hole, chandra, chandra x-ray observatory, gear, gravitational lensing, microlensing, Nasa, quasar, Science, Space, Tech, x-ray, x-rays

[ad_1] The team used an in-between galaxy to get clear images of quasars consisting of the black holes, with Chandra offering a sharp-enough image to separate the multiple images that resulted from the lensing effect. From there, microlensing (in this case, magnification using individual stars from the galaxy) helped detect the spin in question. The […]