Tuesday, July 14, 2026

A Relativistic Jet Could be an Indication of the 'Missing-Link' for Black Holes

Artist's conception illustrating the aftermath of an intermediate-mass black hole tearing apart a passing star, resulting in an accretion disk and narrow relativistic jet (top left). Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M.Weiss

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA) have detected an extraordinary burst of radio light from a rare cosmic event in which an intermediate-mass black hole tears apart a star, revealing what appears to be the off-axis afterglow of a powerful jet.



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