US EditionX-Ray Data Reveals Powerful 'UFO' Winds Generated in Record-Breaking Black Hole Event
A rapid X-ray burst from the supermassive black hole in NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds reaching 60,000 km/s within a day, revealing solar-like magnetic activity, ESA said.
- Recently, the supermassive black hole in NGC 3783 produced a rapid X-ray burst that immediately triggered ultra-fast winds forming within a single day, with one wind measured at 60,000 kilometers per second.
- Untwisting of the AGN's magnetic field launched winds resembling coronal mass ejections, while the black hole's accretion powers an extremely bright active region driving eruptions.
- XRISM's Resolve instrument and XMM-Newton tracked the flare's evolution and wind structure, while the Hubble Space Telescope imaged the spiral host galaxy.
- The ESA said winds from AGNs influence galaxy evolution and resemble solar eruptions, making these objects seem less alien, researchers said.
- The team sees open questions about how AGNs launch winds and researchers say the discovery will drive continued investigation using XMM-Newton and XRISM.
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A supermassive black hole in the center of the NGC 3783 galaxy, located 135 million light years from Earth, ejected a gas current at a speed of 60,000 km/s, equivalent to 20% of the speed of light.This unprecedented cosmic explosion was detected by a joint operation of seven space telescopes, which allowed astronomers to record for the first time an event of this type while an X-ray flare occurred.The details of the phenomenon were published on …
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Flaring black hole launches ultra fast winds across space
Astronomers using two of the world’s best X-ray observatories have witnessed a dramatic and extremely fast outburst from a supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 In just hours, the black hole released a flare of X-ray light that quickly faded, followed by winds blasting outward at astonishing speeds of around 60,000 kilometres per second, or roughly one-fifth the speed of light. The event, observed by ESA’s XMM-Newton and the inte…
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