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Články z ScienceDailyAstronomers pinpoint launch of 'bullets' in a black hole's jet

10. 1 2012 (23:34)

Astronomers have identified the moment when a black hole in our galaxy launched super-fast knots of gas into space. Racing outward at about one-quarter the speed of light, these "bullets" of ionized gas are thought to arise from a region located just outside the black hole's event horizon, the point beyond which nothing can escape.