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Heavy Black Hole Jets in 4U1630-47
APOD 20 November 2013
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This is probably one of the coolest pictures I have ever seen so far about space. Black holes are surrounded by disks of gas and plasma gravitationally pulled from a nearby binary star. This material is expelled from the star system by jets from a spinning black hole. Astronomers discovered that some of these materials are not only electrons and protons but also dense materials such as iron and nickel. This black hole is a few times larger than the mass of our Sun. This was found by a Compact Array of radio telescopes in eastern Australia and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite.
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