{"id":165031,"date":"2023-06-03T00:42:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T05:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/supermassive-black-holes-can-blow-winds-up-to-a-third-of-the-speed-of-light"},"modified":"2023-06-03T00:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T05:42:57","slug":"supermassive-black-holes-can-blow-winds-up-to-a-third-of-the-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/supermassive-black-holes-can-blow-winds-up-to-a-third-of-the-speed-of-light","title":{"rendered":"Supermassive Black Holes Can Blow Winds Up to a Third of The Speed of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supermassive-black-holes-can-blow-winds-up-to-a-third-of-the-speed-of-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are known as ultra-fast outflows (UFOs), powerful space winds emitted by the supermassive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black holes<\/a> (SMBHs) at the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/30719\/active-galactic-nuclei\/\">active galactic nuclei<\/a> (AGNs) \u2013 aka. \u201cquasars.\u201d These winds (with a fun name!) move close to the speed of light (relativistic speeds) and regulate the behavior of SMBHs during their active phase.<\/p>\n<p>These gas emissions are believed to fuel the process of star formation in galaxies but are not yet well understood. Astronomers are interested in learning more about them to improve our understanding of what governs galactic evolution.<\/p>\n<p>This is the purpose of the <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellabrusa.wixsite.com\/subways2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SUper massive Black hole Winds in the x-rAYS<\/a> (SUBWAYS) project, an international research effort dedicated to studying quasars using the ESA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmos.esa.int\/web\/xmm-newton\">XMM-Newton space telescope<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are known as ultra-fast outflows (UFOs), powerful space winds emitted by the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the center of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) \u2013 aka. \u201cquasars.\u201d These winds (with a fun name!) move close to the speed of light (relativistic speeds) and regulate the behavior of SMBHs during their active phase. These gas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165031","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}