Black holes are slowly releasing their secrets and now, scientists have seen jets issuing forth from one devouring its stellar companion just 10,000 light-years from earth.
May 29 (UPI) -- Scientists with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory released a new video Friday showing a pair of jets exploding from a black hole located 10,000 light-years from Earth. Chandra recorded the jets approaching speeds of nearly 80 percent the speed of light.
The black hole and a companion star form a binary system named MAXI J1820+070. The pair were first discovered in 2018, and astronomers have been closely monitoring the system ever since.
X-ray observations captured by Chandra between November 2018 and May 2019 revealed the signatures of radio jets moving at relativistic velocities.
This is what Chandra actually saw. To read the paper describing this particular black hole, click here.
Stellar is it not?
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