Exotic 'Blazar' Is Part of Most Extreme Double Black Hole System Ever Found, Crooked Jet Suggests

Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests

A beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known.

OJ 287: New Image From The Heart Of A Mysterious Galaxy

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – For more than 150 years, the OJ 287 galaxy and its brightness variations, five billion light-years away, have both puzzled and fascinated astronomers, because they suspect two supermassive black holes are merging in the core. Astronomers have recently succeeded in capturing an image of the heart of the galaxy […]

Observations Indicate OJ 287 Galaxy May Host an Ultra-Massive Black Hole Binary at Its Core

Utilizes data from 10m space-based wireless telescopes, including Radioastron. Astronomers have formed a network of 27 ground observation stations focused on OJ 287, a galaxy approximately 5 billion light-years distant from the Cancer constellations. This image of OJ 287 reveals the sharply curved ribbon-like structure of the plasma jet emitted from its center. Image credits: [...] The post Observations Indicate OJ 287 Galaxy May Host an Ultra-M…

OJ 287 Galaxy Likely Harbors Supermassive Black Hole Binary at Its Center, Observations Suggest

Using data from the 10-m space radio telescope RadioAstron and a network of 27 ground-based observatories, astronomers have detected an unusual ribbon-like jet at the core of OJ 287, a galaxy located about 5 billion light-years away in the constellation of Cancer. The post OJ 287 Galaxy Likely Harbors Supermassive Black Hole Binary at Its Center, Observations Suggest appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.