International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never seen before using data from NASA missions and other facilities. The features include the launch of a plasma jet moving at nearly one-third the speed of light and unusual, rapid X-ray fluctuations likely arising from […]
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Active Galaxies, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes, Goddard Space Flight Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array), Supermassive Black Holes, The Universe, White Dwarfs, XMM-Newton (X-ray Multi-Mirror Newton)
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January 13, 2025
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