Astronomers have discovered stellar winds can cause black hole jets to change direction – just like wind on Earth can blow around the water in a fountain.
- Professor, Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy, Curtin University
Powerful jets are launched from the most massive objects in our universe, but we don’t fully understand how. This measurement gets us a step closer to solving the mystery.
When a black hole tears apart a star, it feeds on the debris and launches a powerful jet.
The black hole is part of a binary star system within our Milky Way galaxy. It orbits a colossal supergiant companion star.
A spinning black hole is pumping vast amounts of energy back into the surrounding universe, but something is causing the jets that transport that energy to wobble very rapidly.
Astronomers found something not predicted by current theory when they took a closer look at the emissions from a neutron star with a very strong magnetic field.
While we tend to think of black holes as giant cosmic vacuum cleaners, it’s not all one-way travel. As gas falls in towards a black hole, it spirals gradually inwards like water going down a plug hole…
SS Cygni, a famous stellar system made up of one normal star and one dead star, is much closer than previously thought, according to a new study by Australian researchers and citizen scientists. The new…
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