James Webb Telescope Captures Exciting Image of Black Hole Jet
Scientists have used the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera to capture a gigantic jet blasting out of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged.
The new images, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, reveal previously unseen details of the jets shooting out of the black hole.
- The jet is catapulting through space at almost the speed of light.
- The massive counter-jet is ricocheting through space in the opposite direction.
- The black hole is located 54 million light-years from Earth at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87).
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