NASA’s Chandra Spots Unexpectedly Robust Jet from Distant Black Gap at Cosmic Midday

NASA’s Chandra Spots Unexpectedly Robust Jet from Distant Black Gap at Cosmic Midday

A black gap 11.6 billion mild years from Earth has unleashed a compelling jet, in keeping with new observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Nationwide Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Giant Array (VLA). Seen when the universe was at its early “cosmic midday”, or about 3 billion years after the Massive Bang, the jet is…

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The Universe’s Brightest Lights Have Surprisingly Darkish and Mysterious Origins

The Universe’s Brightest Lights Have Surprisingly Darkish and Mysterious Origins

A few of the brightest lights within the universe shine from a few of its darkest corners — so-called supermassive black holes. Invisible to the human eye, these high-energy powerhouses gentle up the cosmos with emissions which are detected by house telescopes. 1000’s of such gentle sources have been found with NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Area Telescope, which has…

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