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An international team of researchers used the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and XRISM, a JAXA-led mission with ESA participation, to uncover and study a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. (European Space Agency via SWNS)<\/p>\n
A flaring black hole<\/a> whips up ultra-fast winds of more than 37,000 miles per SECOND, reveals new research.<\/p>\n X-ray space telescopes spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole<\/a>.<\/p>\n The gravitational “monster” whipped up powerful winds in just hours, flinging material out into space at breath-taking speeds of 60,000 kilometers per second (37,282 miles per second).<\/p>\n Astronomers spotted a bright X-ray flare erupt from the black hole<\/a> before swiftly fading away.<\/p>\n But, as it faded, fast winds emerged, raging at one-fifth of the speed of light, according to a study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cFor the first time, we\u2019ve seen how a rapid burst of X-ray light from a black hole<\/a> immediately triggers ultra-fast winds, with these winds forming in just a single day.\u201d<\/p>\n To study NGC 3783 and its black hole<\/a>, Dr. Gu and his colleagues simultaneously used the European Space Agency\u2019s XMM-Newton and the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM).<\/p>\n NASA Hubble Space Telescope<\/p>\n By Talker<\/p>\n Dr. Gu explained that the black hole in question is as massive as 30 million Suns.<\/p>\n As it feasts on nearby material, it powers an “extremely bright” and active region at the heart of the spiral galaxy.<\/p>\n The region – known as an Active Galactic Nucleus<\/a> (AGN) – blazes in all kinds of light, and throws powerful jets and winds out into the cosmos.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Study co-author Dr. Matteo Guainazzi said: \u201cAGNs are really fascinating and intense regions, and key targets for both XMM-Newton and XRISM.<\/p>\n \u201cThe winds around this black hole<\/a> seem to have been created as the AGN\u2019s tangled magnetic field suddenly \u2018untwisted\u2019 \u2013 similar to the flares that erupt from the Sun, but on a scale almost too big to imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n He explained that the winds from the black hole resemble large solar eruptions of material known as coronal mass ejections, which form as the Sun hurls streams of superheated material into space.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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