Astronomers have discovered two large, mysterious objects blasting out of the brightest black hole in the known Universe.
In the study, a team of researchers calibrated the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array radio telescope in Chile to separate the radiant glow of quasar 3C 273 from the light emitted by its host galaxy.
Scientists aren't exactly sure how or why astrophysical jets form. They do know, however, that jets are commonly seen around quasars and other supermassive black holes, and likely arise from interactions between a black hole and its dusty accretion disk. Jets are typically made of ionized matter, and travel at near-light-speed.
After testing several theories, the team concluded that the large radio fog around the galaxy comes from star-forming hydrogen gas that's being ionized directly by the quasar itself. This is the first time that ionized gas has been seen stretching tens of thousands of light-years around a supermassive black hole, according to the researchers.
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