New discovery of black hole activity

Using a powerful optical telescope, researchers at Boston University (USA) captured an image of a supermassive black hole while they spewed extremely powerful charged molecules.

This black hole lies 950 million light years from Earth, belonging to the BL Lacertae galaxy range.

The new discovery allows scientists to see for the first time how cosmic rays form.

The supermassive black holes that form the cores of many galaxies and astronomers have long argued that they have emitted molecular rays that are close to the speed of light.

However, until the telescope captured the images on this theory still in secret.

These images show that the pulled material towards the black hole has created a flat, rotating disk, called a accretion disk.

When matter moves from the periphery of the accretion disk, the electromagnetic fields are perpendicular to the accretion disk, creating a bundle of compressed material, which expels the molecules ejected by the black hole.

The space near the black hole, including electromagnetic fields, is also twisted due to the extreme gravitational pull of the black hole.

(Photos: Marscher et al., Wolfgang Steffen, Cosmovision, NRAO / AUI / NSF)