Astronomers recently spotted a gale of hot, charged particles erupting from this black hole in the aftermath of a powerful X-ray flare that occurred just a few hours earlier. As one of the study's co-authors, Matteo Guainazzi, described it in a statement, picture a cosmic storm "similar to the flares that erupt from the sun, but on a scale almost too big to imagine." Guainazzi is a project scientist on the European Space Agency's XRISM X-ray telescope, which led to these results.
And the breathtaking sight could help astrophysicists better understand how supermassive black holes shape the fate of their host galaxies.
Source: www.space.com
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