Biggest ever seen black hole jets; blasting plasma well beyond their own galaxy

Post by njarboe » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 7:32 PM UTC

codeulike wrote: post #9

southernplaces7 wrote: post #5

I thought that only hawking radiation could escape a black hole. Now a paper describing a vast jet of emitted plasma?? The article doesn't quite clarify this point. It mentions the jets shooting from below and above the black holes, but does this mean they're emerging from their interior or being created by the accretion of superheated material that forms in orbit around black holes? The article simple states this, w…

Its not coming out of the black hole itself, its more like the black hole has an accretion disk around it of material that is being sucked in. The dynamics of the huge forces and energies involved can cause jets to form, throwing high energy particles away from the black hole. The jets still represent a tiny fraction of the matter, most of which is still heading into the hole.

Post by Retr0id » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 7:59 PM UTC

LarsDu88 wrote: post #4

If the plasma jet is wildly larger than our entire galaxy, I wonder if some sort of exotic life could evolve inside the jet. Some sort of life that would be totally rare in the universe.

Post by bobbylarrybobby » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 8:37 PM UTC

jadbox wrote: post #14

LarsDu88 wrote: post #4

If the plasma jet is wildly larger than our entire galaxy, I wonder if some sort of exotic life could evolve inside the jet. Some sort of life that would be totally rare in the universe.

Not my field, but could the Big Bang have been a massive black hole that "spat" out jets of plasma that formed into new stars and galaxies? I call this the black hole big burp theory.

Post by njb311 » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 8:40 PM UTC

Post by rookderby » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 8:42 PM UTC