Today I Learned (TIL) · 6 months ago

TIL that powerful jets of high-energy particles created by supermassive black holes must be pointed at Earth to be called a Blazar

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TIL that powerful jets of high-energy particles created by supermassive black holes must be pointed at Earth to be called a Blazar

Today I Learned (TIL) · 6 months ago

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NASA’s IXPE Fires Up Astronomers With New Blazar Findings - NASA

An international team of astrophysicists, using new data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), published findings about the blazar called Markarian 421 – which offered some surprising results.

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I’m not an astronomy expert, but I believe that the effect of the jets can be seen distorting dust clouds surrounding such objects.
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  Ah, that makes sense

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