Surprising Changes In Black Hole-powered 'Blazar' Galaxy

Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 09:39 in Astronomy & Space

Astrophysicists have uncovered surprising changes in radiation emitted by an active galaxy. Like many active galaxies, a blazar emits oppositely directed jets of particles traveling near the speed of light as matter falls into a central supermassive black hole; this process is not well understood. In the case of blazars, the galaxy is oriented such that we're looking right down the jet.

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