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Stellar black hole - Artist view

author: ESO/Novapix

reference: a-blh02-00033

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 25 cm

Combining observations done with ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of jets ever seen from a stellar black hole. The black hole blows a huge bubble of hot gas, 1000 light-years across or twice as large and tens of times more powerful than the other such microquasars. The stellar black hole belongs to a binary system as pictured in this artist’s impression.

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2010 - ASTRONOMY - BINARY STAR - BLACK HOLE - DISK - GRAVITY - ILLUSTRATION - JET - STAR - STELLAR BLACK HOLE -