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Credit & Copyright: Steve Cullen
(lightbuckets.com)
Explanation:
What happens to matter that falls toward an energetic black hole?
In the case of
Cygnus X-1,
perhaps little of that matter actually makes it in.
Infalling gas may first collide not only with itself but with an
accretion disk
of swirling material surrounding the
black hole.
The result may be a
microquasar that glows across the
electromagnetic spectrum and produces powerful
jets that expel much of the
infalling matter back into the cosmos at near light speed
before it can even
approach the black
hole's
event horizon.
Confirmation that black hole jets may create expanding shells has come recently from
the discovery of shells surrounding
Cygnus X-1.
Pictured above on the upper right is one such shell quite possibly created by the
jet of microquasar and black hole candidate
Cygnus X-1.
Rolling your cursor over the image will bring up an annotated version.
The physical processes that create the
black hole jets is a topic that continues to be researched.
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Publications with keywords: Cyg X-1 - black hole - jet
Publications with words: Cyg X-1 - black hole - jet
See also:
- APOD: 2024 November 24 Á Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
- APOD: 2024 October 1 Á Porphyrion: The Longest Known Black Hole Jets
- APOD: 2024 June 16 Á Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star
- Simulation: Two Black Holes Merge
- The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole
- APOD: 2024 May 8 Á Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk
- APOD: 2024 May 7 Á Black Hole Accreting with Jet