{"id":199378,"date":"2024-11-13T02:31:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T08:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/nasa-recorded-something-escaped-a-black-hole-at-almost-the-speed-of-light-video"},"modified":"2024-11-13T02:31:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T08:31:29","slug":"nasa-recorded-something-escaped-a-black-hole-at-almost-the-speed-of-light-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/nasa-recorded-something-escaped-a-black-hole-at-almost-the-speed-of-light-video","title":{"rendered":"NASA Recorded Something Escaped A Black Hole At Almost The Speed Of Light (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-recorded-something-escaped-a-black-hole-at-almost-the-speed-of-light-video3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A black hole in the MAXI J1820+070 system ejected about 400 million billion pounds of gas in twin jets\u2014equivalent to 500 million times the mass of the Empire State Building.<\/p>\n<p>In a significant astronomical discovery, NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured a rare phenomenon: a black hole ejecting massive jets of material at nearly the speed of light. This black hole is part of the binary system MAXI J1820+070, positioned approximately 10,000 light-years away, which is relatively close in cosmic terms. This proximity allowed detailed observations that contribute to our understanding of how black holes interact with companion stars.<\/p>\n<p>The MAXI J1820+070 system features a black hole about eight times the mass of the sun, drawing material from a companion star roughly half the sun\u2019s mass. This process creates an accretion disk\u2014a luminous sphere emitting bright X-rays as material is funneled toward the black hole. While some gas is absorbed, some is expelled in powerful jets that travel in opposite directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A black hole in the MAXI J1820+070 system ejected about 400 million billion pounds of gas in twin jets\u2014equivalent to 500 million times the mass of the Empire State Building. In a significant astronomical discovery, NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured a rare phenomenon: a black hole ejecting massive jets of material at nearly the speed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199378","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=199378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}