I thought nothing could “escape” from a black hole;
A supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of a relatively close galaxy is firing off a rapid-fire slew of ultrafast gas “bullets” into the surrounding galaxy.
This is the conclusion of an international team of astronomers with the U.S./Japanese X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), whose spacecraft was designed to observe the hot plasma winds that blow through galaxies.
The subject of the study was PDS 456, an active galactic nucleus located some 2.18 giga light-years from the Earth in the constellation of Serpens.
The team say that the energy being carried by the “bullets” of wind is far greater than was expected—and could shake up our understanding of how galaxies and their central black holes evolve in tandem.
But it’s Newsweek, so they probably got it wrong.
This is timely , as i plan to drop 5k on a telescope nest week.
I can see you.
Phew! Ordered that ChiCom telescope jussssssst in time to beat Trump’s tariffs! That was close.
Stating that PDS 456 is a “relatively close galaxy” is akin to referring to Saturn as a “relatively close planet”. Relative to planets like Mercury, Venus and Mars, Neptune is a relatively distant planet. But as you observed, it’s Newsweek.
2 billion light years away is nowhere near “close”. That’s nearly 1000 times further away than the Andromeda galaxy.
Mars was killed by a planetary explosion which also gave life to Earth.
It is a deep hole if you want to continue on.
Velikovsky?
I’m familiar with the history of Mars and Earth (as best as scientists can determine), and I’ve never heard this.
Can you provide a citation?
Instead of science being settled, the overseers could have said “this is what we assume today” and left it at that.
I concur this message.
I don’t know if I’m able to care what’s on the dark side of the moon.. Or where the virus came from.. Or how you found another planet 2000 light years away.. They all check their own papers, right?.. And they all need more funding next year, right?..
Even down here on earth 2/3rds of peer reviewed studies cant be replicated.. What chance does Andromeda have?.. With the automatic funding comes endless discoveries that require (wait for it) more funding..
Apparently the Chinese are on the dark side of the moon mining helium-3 so they can power quantum computers and take over the world.
The Chinese are doing -jack- on the far side of the moon if they ever even got there at all. They are poseurs first, last and always.
The Chinese space program is doing very well. They have their own GPS sat. constellation, and are building their own Starlink-type internet sat. constellation.
Musk’s killer satellites will vaporize the entire ChiCom fleet of space junk
Good.
That’ll also wind up destroying most satellites.
I like Kessler Syndrome. I hate that gov’t and other bad actors can see everything.
“The Chinese space program is doing very well. They have their own GPS sat. constellation, and are building their own Starlink-type internet sat. constellation.”
Using the best technology they could steal, no doubt.
Lots of their tech was appropriated, but they do a awful lot of their own stuff too.
Did the Japs “steal” optics and watchmaking tech from the Germans and the Swiss?
Did the USA “steal” missile and rocketry tech from the Germans?
Reverse engineering stuff is not theft.
You can believe the MSM spouting off about how everyone in China is a slave to the regime working in horrible conditions and all of their tech was stolen all ya like, just like the Norks tell everyone that the west is a sh*thole. It’s all just propaganda, both here and in North Korea.
“Did the USA “steal” missile and rocketry tech from the Germans?”
Yes, they literally kidnapped Werner Von Braun and a bunch more like him, and took every missile/aircraft/tank etc. they could get their hands on. That’s why there was an American space program, that’s why the Horten HO-229 is in the Smithsonian museum. Mr. Northrup was excited to get his hands on one.
When you win a war you can do things like that.
I think Von Braun willingly surrendered to the Americans.
Arrested and placed in protective custody. That ain’t kidnapping.
It was either that, the Russians or Nuremburg trials.
Oh, and the worlds first liquid-fueled rocket was American.
I covet the melding of Japanese artistry with technology … next time I have $6k lying around. And that’s a moderately priced cart. from Koetsu.
http://www.koetsuaudio.com/rosewoodsignature
” In the past the Japanese industry copied the stuff from the western world – the camera industry comes to mind – and especially German Leica, Rolleiflex and Contax models. But once they got the idea behind a construction, the Japanese engineers had the ability to increase the amount of features as well as the quality and they achieved a better result than the formerly copied product. At that moment there was no German camera industry anymore (Leica survived almost…) and Nikon with their legendary F and F2 models took over the complete professional camera market. If those people do something really seriously, they are able to achieve superlative product qualities.
Imagine – at the end of the 70ties (last century) Sugano San (the father) came up with something like a Koetsu Red (read Rosewood Signature) cartridge – it was nearly comparable with the presence of the space shuttle in the 19th century….
A line contact stylus, boron cantilever, smarium cobalt magnets, 5 ohm DC resistance and healthy 0.4mV output voltage, bodies made from rosewood, lacquered with Urushi, or even milled out of solid stone…imagine that at the end of the 70ties…..it was THE ULTIMATE CARTRIDGE!”
They’re actually in a milti-decade struggle with the remnants of interdimensional moon Nazis who escaped the destruction of their earth when they tried to summon a lesser god to help dominate their world and the god ate it.
Don’t you just hate it when that happens? Especially when you haven’t had your morning coffee yet.
Love it!
I recently watched a show hosted by Brian Cox; he was talking about things like wormholes, multi-dimensional universes, string theory, etc. At one point he said, “now, the non-physicists are probably saying ‘I have no idea what he is talking about’, and that’s okay because I don’t know either”.
I like that kind of honesty. 🙂
Watch his shows, that’s why i decided to drop a pile of money on something i cannot see.
We all do that, I guess. It’s called “the future”.
long story, but I once sat at a table full of string theorists and math heads and computational machine learning geeks, and they were full on whacked.
God created the heavens and the earth, but had a sense of humour to suffer these benighted fools.
it is thanks to “these benighted fools.” that you have a car, can fly to other countries, watch TV, use electricity, the radio, etc.
These people studied God’s work in detail while you look down your nose at them.
Apparently at the event horizon some matter is shot out into space, as some is sucked in.
If it’s a Canadian black hole, 95 percent gets sucked in.
and taxed
It’s called “relatively close” because it is in comparison to most galaxies that have been catalogued.
As is par for the course, the MSM dumbs things down to the point of meaninglessness.
Lastly, the ultra-fast outflow has been known about for about 5 years, Newsweek is late to the party, by around 2500 weeks. Newsweak indeed.
If you want to know about this thing read this:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9911475
If you want to pretend you know about this thing, stick with Newsweak.
I’m not pretending that I know nothing about that thing 2.18giga lightyears away. Also not going to pretend I’m worried about not knowing.
That’s a reasonable take.
2.18 giggling light-years? That’s no laughing matter.
What’s at the center of a hurricane? Nothing.
What’s at the center of a tornado? Nothing.
What’s at the center of a galaxy? A black hole comprised of near infinite mass surrounded by dark matter that we cannot see or even detect.
The word for today, boys and girls, is “Coriolis force”.
We can detect dark matter, and the central black holes, by their effects on things we can see.
Do you know how you can tell if there is an apple on the table? You can detect it by when light interacts with it and goes into your eye. We can detect central black holes and dark matter in a similar way, by how light interacts with it and goes into a telescope.
It’s not a near infinite mass – infinite density.
And it’s not surrounded by dark matter – dark matter isn’t thing, it.is a series of unexplainable observations.
There are two kinds of stuff in the universe:
1. Stuff with mass, often referred to as “matter” and
2. Stuff with no mass, often referred to as “energy.”
Both gravitate, but (2) always moves at c.
The cause of the galactic rotational anomalies and the gravitational lensing cannot be modelled by (2), thus the term “dark matter”, which models the observations quite well.
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Oh?
Did He make you say that?
Do you even have any thoughts of your own? Does anyone?
The study of His work, aka physics, is a sacrament, to understand the laws of creation is to understand God’s laws.
So is that why when Mexicans get very energetic, they shout, “No mass! No mass!”?
Man, but there are a lot of people who if you told them that their catalytic convert stopped working because the cats got out, they’d believe it.
Ours stopped working because it was built by Ford.
Cat found on road dead?
I believe that if one my cats gets in it will stop working.
That supermassive black hole is just emitting quantum farts as it digests its lunch of a million civilized worlds.
Black hole, I stick with white wimins!
LMFAO…this coming from the permanent member of Darwin’s waiting room.
1. Nothing escapes a black hole in terms of information, but energy does through Hawking Radiation.
2. What’s happening is matter from the accretion disk is being thrown away from the hole.
Information probably gets out in Hawking radiation.
If energy can escape, then presumably it can carry information. Unless there’s a Hawking Censor lurking undiscovered, purging it all.
Relatively close.
The earth is 93,000,000 miles from earth. This galaxy is 1,400,000,000,000,000 times that distance away from us.
Or 130,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away.