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

A Black Hole is Firing Bullet-Like Blobs of Gas into Space

Scientists have discovered that black holes don't just devour everything—they also fire back. While nothing can escape the event horizon, black holes generate ferocious winds that blast outward at significant fractions of the speed of light. New research challenges the long-held belief that they flow smoothly and continuously. Instead, these winds are violent, fragmented bursts resembling rapid-fire streams of gas bullets. Astronomers have now w…

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

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."

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…

Information Preservation in Black Holes and Divine Records: A Scientific and Quranic Perspective

This artist’s impression depicts a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disc. This thin disc of rotating material consists of the leftovers of a Sun-like star which was ripped apart by the tidal forces of the black hole. Shocks in the colliding debris as well as heat generated in accretion led to…

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…

Seen a violent cosmic storm produced by a black hole - Global Happenings

A violent cosmic stormproduced by a Black supermassive holewas revealed by the new Resolve spectrometer On board the XRISM satellite, the result of the collaboration between the space agencies of Japan, Europe and the United States. Thanks to the data collected at very high resolution in X -rays, it was possible identify for the First time five distinct shapes of plasma that make up the wind and that come out of the growth disc of the black hole…