Black Hole Jet Pointed Almost Straight at Earth Confirmed as Milky Way’s First Microblazar
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Black Hole Jet Pointed Almost Straight at Earth Confirmed as Milky Way’s First Microblazar
Astronomers have confirmed something they have been searching for for decades: the first known microblazar in the Milky Way. The object, known as IRAS 18293−0941, lies around 12,000 light-years from Earth and contains a black hole roughly ten times the mass of the Sun. What makes it so unusual is the direction of the jet […]
A black hole that had been hidden for years behind a thick veil of cosmic dust has been found to be powering a powerful particle accelerator within our own Milky Way. Astronomers have announced the discovery of the first microblazar ever detected in our Milky Way, a system in which a black hole shoots out jets of plasma at speeds approaching
First Galactic Microblazar Confirmed
An international team has identified the first convincing example of a microblazar in the Milky Way, a black-hole binary system whose powerful jet is directed almost towards Earth. The system, located about 12,000 light-years away, consists of a black hole orbiting a massive star every 11.38 days. Material falling towards the black hole produces powerful jets travelling at around 75% of the speed of light. The discovery combines observations acr…
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