Is that image real? It looks like an artist rendering.
DontTickleTheDriver1 on
Alrighty. If that pic is real and that beam is real then WTF?!?
Sea_Signal_5579 on
So if it‘s 3.000 light years long it already started more than 3.000 years ago and was just not discovered until now, right?
1leggeddog on
I always thought that since it’s a black hole, nothing could escape it.
So then how could this jet even happen?
Well the whole “nothing escapes a black hole” is for the event horizon. Stuff still “orbits” the black hole and if it goes fast enough, it can counteract the massive gravity field of the black hole, like a slingshot.
67hipo289 on
Ok, Hubble took that picture. Is it changed in any way, I mean is that how it appears to the eye or is the picture in different wavelengths etc?
5 Comments
Is that image real? It looks like an artist rendering.
Alrighty. If that pic is real and that beam is real then WTF?!?
So if it‘s 3.000 light years long it already started more than 3.000 years ago and was just not discovered until now, right?
I always thought that since it’s a black hole, nothing could escape it.
So then how could this jet even happen?
Well the whole “nothing escapes a black hole” is for the event horizon. Stuff still “orbits” the black hole and if it goes fast enough, it can counteract the massive gravity field of the black hole, like a slingshot.
Ok, Hubble took that picture. Is it changed in any way, I mean is that how it appears to the eye or is the picture in different wavelengths etc?