First Direct Image of a Supermassive Black Hole Spewing a Jet of Particles

The black hole in question is our old friend M87* , the one we got the first image of a couple of years ago , as it's just 53 million light-years from Earth it's a good candidate to study , so as a thank you it put on a little show for us.

The black hole M87* pictured with a gigantic jet of material streaming from it. (Image credit: R.-S. Lu (SHAO), E. Ros (MPIfR), S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF))

It's thought the material builds up in the accretion disk and at a point gets expelled , like a baby launching its dinner at the Universe.

After circling the black hole's mouth, most of this material is subsequently spat out, forming a jet of hot gas and dust that, in roughly a tenth of instances, travels at 99.995% the speed of light.

Astronomers believe these jets reach such incredible speeds with assistance from the black holes' rotation and their powerful magnetic fields, but none of this is known for certain. Precisely where around a black hole these jets originate is also a mystery.

To collect the new image, the researchers used radio telescopes from the Greenland Telescope (GLT), theGlobal Millimetre VLBI Array (GMVA) in Europe, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. By reconstructing the faint radio light they detected, the astronomers pieced together a jigsaw image of the black hole's silhouette, the swirling matter that surrounds it, and the hyper-fast jet of material that springs forth from it.

To the researchers' surprise, the ring of material around the black hole was 50% thicker than in the 2019 image of M87*, and a wider range of radiation was also seen being thrown out from its mouth, suggesting that just as material falls into the accretion disk, there could also be a particle wind blowing out. Whether these two new observations are related, and exactly where the jet is emerging from around the black hole, remains to be seen.
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I think it's quite mind blowing , nothing can escape the gravity of a Black Hole but material from its accretion disk can be expelled at near Light Speed !?

a reply to: gortex

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originally posted by: gortex
It's thought the material builds up in the accretion disk and at a point gets expelled , like a baby launching its dinner at the Universe.

Maybe there was NO big bang, just a Big Barf.