First Galactic Microblazar Confirmed
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Scientists first found in the Milky Way a microblasar whose existence was predicted 30 years ago.
A team of astronomers identified the first microblazar in our galaxy, which could be one of the most powerful particle accelerators.
We knew the quasars, the blazars, the microquasars, and here comes the microblazars after several decades of theoretical prediction of their existence... Let's remember that a quasar is the energy emission of the accretion disc surrounding a supermassive black hole, which produces a jet of particles along its axis of rotation. A blazar is a quasar whose axis of the jet points towards us, a microquasar is the equivalent of a quasar but with a bla…
Black Hole Jet Pointed Almost Straight at Earth Confirmed as Milky Way’s First Microblazar
Astronomers have confirmed something they have been searching for for decades: the first known microblazar in the Milky Way. The object, known as IRAS 18293−0941, lies around 12,000 light-years from Earth and contains a black hole roughly ten times the mass of the Sun. What makes it so unusual is the direction of the jet […]
A black hole that had been hidden for years behind a thick veil of cosmic dust has been found to be powering a powerful particle accelerator within our own Milky Way. Astronomers have announced the discovery of the first microblazar ever detected in our Milky Way, a system in which a black hole shoots out jets of plasma at speeds approaching
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