Black Hole Fires Cosmic Bullets
25% of lightspeed? Now that's fast
Science • January 2012 • Views: 1,184
AUSTIN — Astronomers have captured an image of a black hole firing off two enormous “bullets” of ionized gas at nearly a quarter the speed of light. The cosmic explosion produces as much energy in an hour as the sun emits in five years.
The black hole, named H1742-322, sits near the galactic center, approximately 28,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius.