{"id":161959,"date":"2023-04-12T04:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/explosive-secret-of-massive-quasar-relativistic-jets-blowing-bubbles-in-the-teacup-galaxys-core"},"modified":"2023-04-12T04:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:22:47","slug":"explosive-secret-of-massive-quasar-relativistic-jets-blowing-bubbles-in-the-teacup-galaxys-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/explosive-secret-of-massive-quasar-relativistic-jets-blowing-bubbles-in-the-teacup-galaxys-core","title":{"rendered":"Explosive Secret of Massive Quasar: Relativistic Jets Blowing Bubbles in the Teacup Galaxy\u2019s Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/explosive-secret-of-massive-quasar-relativistic-jets-blowing-bubbles-in-the-teacup-galaxys-core2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study led by Anelise Audibert, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Canarias (IAC), reveals a process that explains the peculiar morphology of the central region of the Teacup galaxy, a massive quasar located 1.3 billion light-years away from us. This object is characterized by the presence of expanding gas bubbles produced by winds emanating from its central supermassive black hole.<\/p>\n<p>A black hole is a place in space where the gravitational field is so strong that not even light can escape it. Astronomers classify black holes into three categories by size: miniature, stellar, and supermassive black holes. Miniature black holes could have a mass smaller than our Sun and supermassive black holes could have a mass equivalent to billions of our Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study led by Anelise Audibert, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Canarias (IAC), reveals a process that explains the peculiar morphology of the central region of the Teacup galaxy, a massive quasar located 1.3 billion light-years away from us. This object is characterized by the presence of expanding gas bubbles produced by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}