One of the most remarkable photos ever taken. And it is impossible to comprehend the scale of it.
Taken by Hubble, it is a jet of gas being fired out of a supermassive black hole. The jet is 3,000 light years long (1 light year = 6 trillion miles!).
Full amazing story👉 https://mashable.com/article/black-hole-hubble-nasa-beam-through-space
Taken by Hubble, it is a jet of gas being fired out of a supermassive black hole. The jet is 3,000 light years long (1 light year = 6 trillion miles!).
Full amazing story👉 https://mashable.com/article/black-hole-hubble-nasa-beam-through-space
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Astra to Astra, dust to dust.
And awesome.
In any case, it’s rapid!
::adds unimaginably powerful beam of energy from our galaxy’s black hole to the list::
But you said universe, not galaxy, and there are an awful lot of galaxies and “now” is an almost meaningless term, so who knows? 🤷♂️
as someone who has dyscalculia and a massive interest in astronomy… i thought really hard about the scale here and decided that, even with my challenges, this is unfathomably unfathomable. not even hyperbole. wow
Black holes produce no light. But material can rapidly spin around black holes, forming an "accretion disk" that radiates light. And, sometimes material falling into a black hole can become rerouted into two jets, firing in opposite directions.
Still,🤯
The orbits of the major planets are a fraction of that.
Neptune is only four light hours from the Sun.