Artists impression of jets from a black hole 1 (IMAGE)

University of Warwick

Artists impression of jets from a black hole 1

Caption

Combining observations done with ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of jets ever seen from a stellar black hole. The black hole blows a huge bubble of hot gas, 1000 light-years across or twice as large and tens of times more powerful than the other such microquasars. The stellar black hole belongs to a binary system as pictured in this artist’s impression.

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0 (https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1028a/)

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ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0 (https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1028a/)

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