A stream of plasma is shooting out of the black hole toward the RAD12-B galaxy, which stretches more than 440,000 light years.
Indian scientists discovered how in one of the galaxies a black hole throws a jet of plasma into a nearby galaxy. Space reported it.
It was found that a unique black hole is located in the RAD12 galaxy, and its plasma jet “shoots” the neighboring RAD12-B galaxy. Located at a distance of about one billion light-years from Earth, these two galaxies are in the process of colliding and merging.
Plasma jets emitted by black holes are always a paired phenomenon. Each jet just flies into space in different directions. The peculiarity of the situation with RAD12 is that its black hole seems to emit only one jet, directed towards another galaxy.
“We are pleased to have discovered a rare system that helps us understand the feedback of radio emission from supermassive black holes to star-forming galaxies during mergers,” said study leader Ananda Hota, Associate Professor of Atomic Energy at the University of Mumbai in India.
It was previously reported that when two neutron stars collided, a jet of matter was ejected, which flew through space at seven times the speed of light.
The Webb telescope shows the star tango
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