{"id":238391,"date":"2026-06-05T02:18:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/record-ultraviolet-quasar-wind-reaches-30-light-speed-near-supermassive-black-hole"},"modified":"2026-06-05T02:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:18:55","slug":"record-ultraviolet-quasar-wind-reaches-30-light-speed-near-supermassive-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/record-ultraviolet-quasar-wind-reaches-30-light-speed-near-supermassive-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"Record ultraviolet quasar wind reaches 30% light speed near supermassive black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/record-ultraviolet-quasar-wind-reaches-30-light-speed-near-supermassive-black-hole2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team led by York University researchers has discovered the fastest wind near a supermassive black hole ever found at ultraviolet wavelengths, driven by the disk of matter (quasar) surrounding the black hole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis quasar has a black hole of 1.7 billion times the mass of the sun. That\u2019s typical. What\u2019s not typical is that it has gas moving towards us at 30% of the speed of light,\u201d says York Professor Patrick Hall of the Faculty of Science.<\/p>\n<p>The finding is <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/ae5f94\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in a paper in The Astrophysical Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by York University researchers has discovered the fastest wind near a supermassive black hole ever found at ultraviolet wavelengths, driven by the disk of matter (quasar) surrounding the black hole. \u201cThis quasar has a black hole of 1.7 billion times the mass of the sun. That\u2019s typical. What\u2019s not typical is that [\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-238391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238391","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=238391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}