US EditionChandra Spots Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at 'Cosmic Noon'
- Jaya Maithil and her team presented new findings at the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Anchorage, AK, in 2025, revealing powerful jets from distant black holes.
- These results come from investigations using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Array to study jets from supermassive black holes during the era known as cosmic noon, which took place roughly three billion years following the universe’s inception.
- The team confirmed two black holes located roughly 11.6 billion light-years away, each emitting jets over 300,000 light-years long with particles traveling at 92% to 99% the speed of light.
- NASA reported that the jet emitted by J1610+1811 is exceptionally strong, transporting about half the energy output compared to the bright radiation from the extremely hot gas swirling around the black hole, and Chandra detects it due to illumination by the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the Big Bang.
- These results offer insights into supermassive black hole growth and their influence on galaxy evolution during the universe's most dynamic period, despite concerns over Chandra's funding and operational future.
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Monster black hole jet from the early universe is basking in the 'afterglow' of the Big Bang
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant energy jet "being illuminated by the leftover glow from the Big Bang itself."
At Cosmic Noon, this Black Hole Was the Life of the Party
About 3 billion years after the Big Bang, star formation exploded across the cosmos. During the era dubbed "cosmic noon.” It was also when galaxies and supermassive black holes were growing faster than at any other time in the history of the universe. Now astronomers have discovered a monster from this frenzied period: a supermassive black hole unleashing jets that stretch over 300,000 light-years into space, revealing the sheer violence of its …
Chandra spots surprisingly strong black hole jet at 'cosmic noon'
A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it is being illuminated by the leftover glow from the Big Bang itself.
The astronomers discovered a huge black hole that throws into space two times bigger matter jets than Calea Lactee. The phenomenon took place in the first billion years after Big Bang and could...
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