{"id":235435,"date":"2026-04-17T06:41:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/dancing-jets-from-black-hole-reveal-an-immense-power-equivalent-to-10000-suns"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:41:39","slug":"dancing-jets-from-black-hole-reveal-an-immense-power-equivalent-to-10000-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/dancing-jets-from-black-hole-reveal-an-immense-power-equivalent-to-10000-suns","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dancing jets\u2019 from black hole reveal an immense power equivalent to 10,000 suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dancing-jets-from-black-hole-reveal-an-immense-power-equivalent-to-10000-suns.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Curtin University-led research has used a radio telescope that spans Earth to snap images that measure the immense power of jets from black holes, confirming scientists\u2019 theories of how black holes help shape the structure of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in <i>Nature Astronomy<\/i>, researchers found the power of the jets in Cygnus X-1\u2014a system comprised of the first confirmed black hole and a supergiant star\u2014was equivalent to the power output of 10,000 suns.<\/p>\n<p>To record the measurement, researchers used an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-06-chandra-strong-black-hole-jet.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">array of linked-up telescopes<\/a> separated by large distances to observe the black hole jets being buffeted by the winds of the star as the black hole moved around its orbit\u2014much like how strong winds on Earth can push around water in a fountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Curtin University-led research has used a radio telescope that spans Earth to snap images that measure the immense power of jets from black holes, confirming scientists\u2019 theories of how black holes help shape the structure of the universe. In a paper published in Nature Astronomy, researchers found the power of the jets in Cygnus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235435","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}