Black Hole Blows Big Bubble
7 Jul 2010, 17:00 UTC
ESO/L. Calçada
Combining observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of jets ever seen from a stellar black hole. This object, also known as a microquasar, blows a huge bubble of hot gas, 1000 light-years across, twice as large and tens of times more powerful than other known microquasars.
The discovery is reported this week in the journal Nature.
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