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Corey S Powell
Corey S Powell
@coreyspowell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Written in the sky: A history of unrest, then rest, then even more unrest happening in deep space.

New radio observations show that a supermassive black hole shot out plasma jets at a large fraction of the speed of light, paused for 100 million years, then roared back to life.

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/reborn-black-hole-spotted-erupting-cosmic-volcano #science #nature #astronomy

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This LOFAR DR2 image of J1007+3540 superimposed over an optical image by Pan-STARRS shows a compact, bright inner jet, indicating the reawakening of what had been a ‘sleeping’ supermassive black hole at the heart of the gigantic radio galaxy.
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'Reborn' black hole spotted 'erupting like cosmic volcano'

drupal-media[data-view-mode=half_page_width] { display: inline-block; width: 50%; } One of the most vivid portraits of “reborn” black hole activity – likened t...
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