Recently I read that black holes an 'blow bubbles' as caught on a scan. The images and animation are a facscinating new understanding to the ability of black holes to eject matter. As noted in the New York Times this past week:
The star in question is actually two stars: a black hole, a gravitational pit, about eight times as massive as the sun; and a smaller star, with half the mass of the sun, that the black hole is feeding on. The black hole first came to notice in March 2018 when it underwent an outburst that was detected by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae, or ASAS-SN, a network of 24 robotic telescopes, located around the world and run by Ohio State University, that is ever on the lookout for strange things in the sky.
- Watch This Black Hole Blow Bubbles, Dennis Overbye, NY Times, June 5, 2020
Pictures from the Chandra X-Ray Telescope
