{"id":200128,"date":"2021-03-11T22:42:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nasa-finds-proof-of-particle-jet-coming-from-black-hole\/"},"modified":"2021-03-11T22:42:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:42:54","slug":"nasa-finds-proof-of-particle-jet-coming-from-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nasa-finds-proof-of-particle-jet-coming-from-black-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"#NASA finds proof of particle jet coming from black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NASA finds proof of particle jet coming from black hole<\/strong>”
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Astronomers\u00a0at\u00a0NASA\u2019s\u00a0Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of a particle jet coming from a\u00a0supermassive black hole\u00a0in the early universe.<\/p>\n

The source of the\u00a0X-ray\u00a0jet is\u00a0a quasar, or a fast-growing supermassive black hole, named\u00a0PSO J352.4034-15.3373 or\u00a0PJ352-15.<\/p>\n

The quasar sits at the center of a young galaxy and is one of the two most powerful quasars discovered in radio waves in the first billion years after the big bang, according to a\u00a0Tuesday release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For scale, PJ352-15 is around a billion times more massive than the\u00a0sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If this particle jet is confirmed, it would be the most distant supermassive\u00a0black hole \u2014 in a galaxy around 12.7 billion light-years from\u00a0Earth\u00a0\u2014 with a\u00a0jet detected in X-rays.<\/p>\n

For scientists, this jet may aid in understanding how the biggest black holes formed and grew early in the universe\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

The scientists took a close look at\u00a0PJ352-15 over a period of three days using the\u00a0Massachusetts-based\u00a0Chandra\u00a0telescope to detect evidence for the X-ray jet and X-ray emission was located around\u00a0160,000 light-years away from the quasar.<\/p>\n

PJ352-15 is a record-breaker, as it is about 300 million light-years farther away than the most distant X-ray jet recorded before it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition, the\u00a0longest particle jet previously observed from the first billion years after the big bang was only about 5,000 light-years in length, compared with PJ352-15.<\/p>\n

Chandra observed light emitted when the universe was only\u00a00.98 billion years old and the intensity of background radiation was much greater than it is now.<\/p>\n

The jet\u2019s electrons moving away from the black hole collide with photons that make up the radiation and energize the photons into the X-ray range \u2014 increasing the\u00a0X-ray jet\u2019s brightness and allowing Chandra to pick it up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thomas Connor of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in\u00a0Pasadena, Calif., led the study.<\/p>\n

In a series<\/a> of\u00a0tweets, Connor said Tuesday he and his team stared at the quasar for three full days, and in a\u00a0Monday blog post<\/a>, he highlighted how many of the\u00a0fundamental questions of astronomy relate to how the universe as we observe it was assembled.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe past decade has been an absolute gold rush of discovery for black holes seen in the first billion years of the universe, with each new finding pushing the limits of what we thought possible,\u201d he told Fox News<\/a> on Wednesday. \u201cIn particular, we\u2019re discovering more massive black holes earlier in the universe than ever, and this is a bit of a challenge \u2013 how do you grow to such sizes in so little time?\u201d<\/p>\n

Although jets have been proposed as a way to speed up black hole growth, the only jets previously seen have been relatively small, suggesting they\u2019re cosmically young.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur results show that these jets can persist for a million years, during which time they can act to speed black hole growth. And the detection of these jets in X-rays \u2014 as opposed to at radio frequencies \u2014 means there may be many more of these extended jets out there, but we just haven\u2019t looked for them yet,\u201d he explained. \u201cIn short, our new results show that X-ray observations may be the key to solving the early black hole growth challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

The process of reaching this conclusion, he said, was arduous.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe black hole was first flagged for observation almost 10 years ago, before we even knew what it was. In September 2017 we finally measured its redshift, finding that it was in the first billion years of the universe. This, then, led to us proposing for observations with Chandra in March 2018; the community thought highly of our science<\/a>, and observations were conducted in August and September of 2019,\u201d Connor recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking on these results was particularly challenging during the\u00a0pandemic<\/a>, with team members in six separate countries. But that collaboration was crucial, as we discussed how to ensure our results were robust and the overall implications of our findings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A paper<\/a>\u00a0describing Connor\u2019s results has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“#NASA finds proof of particle jet coming from black hole” Astronomers\u00a0at\u00a0NASA\u2019s\u00a0Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of a particle jet coming from a\u00a0supermassive black hole\u00a0in the early universe. The source of the\u00a0X-ray\u00a0jet is\u00a0a quasar, or a fast-growing supermassive black hole, named\u00a0PSO J352.4034-15.3373 or\u00a0PJ352-15. The quasar sits at the center of a young galaxy and is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/nasa-black-hole-001.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[97194,5017,5026,5050,5019],"class_list":["post-200128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-11-21","tag-astronomy","tag-nasa","tag-scientists","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}