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    Spinning Black Hole Sprays Light-Speed Plasma Clouds into Space

    April 30, 2019, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Artist’s impression of jet ejections in V404 Cygni. With our radio telescopes, we see individual bright clouds of plasma that have been ejected from the innermost regions, and redirected by the puffed-up inner accretion disk.
    Credit: ICRAR

    Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8000 light-years from Earth. The research shows jets from V404 Cygni’s black hole behaving in a way never seen before on such short timescales. The jets appear to be rapidly rotating with high-speed clouds of plasma – potentially just minutes apart – shooting out of the black hole in different directions.

    Lead author Associate Professor James Miller-Jones, from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), said black ho...

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