A team led by York University researchers has discovered the fastest wind near a supermassive black hole ever found at ultraviolet wavelengths, driven by the disk of matter (quasar) surrounding the black hole.
“This quasar has a black hole of 1.7 billion times the mass of the sun. That’s typical. What’s not typical is that it has gas moving towards us at 30% of the speed of light,” says York Professor Patrick Hall of the Faculty of Science.
The finding is published in a paper in The Astrophysical Journal.





