{"id":200852,"date":"2024-12-06T05:44:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/hubble-takes-closest-ever-look-at-a-quasar"},"modified":"2024-12-06T05:44:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:44:14","slug":"hubble-takes-closest-ever-look-at-a-quasar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/hubble-takes-closest-ever-look-at-a-quasar","title":{"rendered":"Hubble takes closest-ever look at a quasar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-takes-closest-ever-look-at-a-quasar2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of an energetic monster black hole powering a quasar. A quasar is a galactic center that glows brightly as the black hole consumes material in its immediate surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>The new Hubble views of the environment around the quasar show a lot of \u201cweird things,\u201d according to Bin Ren of the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur Observatory and Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur in Nice, France. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a few blobs of different sizes, and a mysterious L-shaped filamentary structure. This is all within 16,000 light-years of the black hole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the objects could be small satellite galaxies around the black hole, and so they could offer the materials that will accrete onto the central super massive black hole, powering the bright lighthouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of an energetic monster black hole powering a quasar. A quasar is a galactic center that glows brightly as the black hole consumes material in its immediate surroundings. The new Hubble views of the environment around [\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-200852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200852","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=200852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}