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Eye of Sauron Hints at Cosmic Mystery
A new astronomical image shows a one-of-a-kind deep space object that seems to peer down at us on Earth like the Eye of Sauron, portrayed as a flaming eye in The Lord of the Rings movies. That object, shown here, is called a blazar, a jet of radiation issuing from a supermassive black hole, and it is shining deep in the heart of an active galaxy 3.5 billion light-years away. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Als…
A recent astronomical discovery alerted the scientific community and the general public: a cosmic jet, also called relativistic jet, is aligned to the Earth. These jets are particle and plasma emissions launched at near-light speeds from active galactic nuclei, such as blasters, and their study helps to understand the formation of galaxies and the acceleration of particles in the universe. The detected phenomenon has been nicknamed “Eye of Sauro…
Gustavo AlonsoAn enigmatic blazar who had been bewildering scientists for years finally revealed his secret. New images obtained with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) showed a magnetic field in the form of a ring—or toroidal—that functions as the true motor behind the neutrinos and gamma rays that he throws towards the Earth. The finding, published by the team of the international project MuSES, explains why this object, known as PKS 1424+240…
A cosmic eye scrutinizing the Earth for billions of light years. Astronomers have captured an unprecedented image of the magnetic field of a blazar, nicknamed the "Sauron Eye". This...
A recent discovery in outer space captures the attention of the entire international scientific community. After 15 years of work with radio telescopes, a team of specialists managed to reconstruct the image of an extreme cosmic object. The particularity is that, due to its appearance and characteristics, it compares it with the disturbing "Eye of Sauron", of the saga The Lord of the Rings.The analogy is not casual since its brightness and proje…
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