Astronomers for the first time have spotted a jet blasting from the core of a distant galaxy that has changed directions, according to a report published in SPACE. “About 1% of the supermassive black holes, which reside at the center of most galaxies, have disks of gas and dust swirling around them. Debris from this disk that ventures toward growing black holes blasts out powerful jets at light-like speeds in random directions," the report said. A research showed that the core of a distant galaxy named PBC J2333.9-2343 had stirred the jets back to life, one of which had “drastically" changed directions. “Our hypothesis was that the relativistic jet of its supermassive black hole had changed its direction, and to confirm that idea we had to carry out a lot of observations."

Source: Mint June 22, 2023 22:41 UTC