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Space mission discovers 'bullet-like' winds shooting from a supermassive black hole

Summary by Phys.org
Researchers have discovered that ultra-fast wind surrounding a supermassive black hole is not smooth and continuous as previously assumed, but instead resembles a rapid-fire stream of gas "bullets."

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Supermassive black hole in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy photographed in 2019 by the Consortium Event Horizon TelescopeIn 1783 the British scientist, philosopher and priest John Michel, after analyzing Newton's gravitational theories and the concept of escape velocity, sent an article to the Royal Society where he explained that a body with a high density would possess an escape speed equal to the speed of light and would therefore be invi…

Over the past 25 years, astrophysicists have identified correlations between the properties of supermassive black holes and those of their host galaxies, indicating that their evolution is closely related. In an article published in Nature this week, the XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) collaboration reports observations from PDS 456 and shows that when the supermassive black hole in the centre of the galaxy acquires matter, it als…

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Phys.org broke the news in United Kingdom on Thursday, May 15, 2025.
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