This black hole has one of the biggest and most impressive jets ever – Interesting Engineering

Category: Singularity

Black holes are certainly mysterious beasts, and the best astronomers and physicists in the world are still learning the ins and outs of their physics like why theyre so powerful, the details of how they form, what happens inside of the singularity, and how matter interacts with the holes' vicious gravitational pull. On that note, astronomers from Western Sydney University recently discovered something really interesting happening in a black hole in a nearby galaxy.

The black hole in question is located approximately 93 million light-years away from Earth, in the Pyxis constellation, belonging to a galaxy known as NGC 2663. Now, 93 million light-years away may seem far away, but in cosmological distances, its not THAT far from our own galactic neighborhood. After all, the first galaxies are thought to have formed some 13-14 billion years ago and are billions of light-years away.

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This black hole has one of the biggest and most impressive jets ever - Interesting Engineering

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May 8th, 2023
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