statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cFor the first time, we\u2019ve seen how a rapid burst of X-ray light from a black hole immediately triggers ultra-fast winds, with these winds forming in just a single day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The supermassive black hole, which is about 130 million light-years from Earth, has a mass of 30 million times our Sun. Its feeding is so intense that the whole central region is classified as an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN).<\/p>\n
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\u201cAGNs are really fascinating and intense regions, and key targets for both XMM-Newton and XRISM,\u201d explained Matteo Guainazzi, ESA XRISM Project Scientist and co-author of the discovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe winds around this black hole 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
The similarity between solar phenomena and supermassive black hole events, even at different scales, might allow us to understand both processes better. AGNs can truly shape the evolution of their galaxies, so it is paramount for astronomy to unlock their secrets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWindy AGNs also play a big role in how their host galaxies evolve over time, and how they form new stars,\u201d added Camille Diez, a team member and ESA Research Fellow. \u201cBecause they\u2019re so influential, knowing more about the magnetism of AGNs, and how they whip up winds such as these, is key to understanding the history of galaxies throughout the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n
The study is published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galaxy NGC 3783 is gorgeous, with well-defined spiral arms that make it almost the platonic ideal of spiral…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[199,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-339709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-physics","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}