Astronomers observe black hole producing cold, star - making fuel from
hot plasma jets and bubbles.
They routinely create
hot plasma jets and gas bubbles that are thought to prevent the cooling of galaxies and regulate the formation of stars, which requires cold hydrogen gas as a building block.
Not exact matches
Earlier research with NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory revealed that the
jets from this AGN are carving out a pair of giant «radio bubbles,» huge cavities in the
hot, diffuse
plasma that surrounds the galaxy.
That model assumes that relativistic
jets store energy primarily in the form of
hot matter (
plasma) and less in the form of magnetic fields generated by shock waves at the front of the
jets.
In blowout
jets, the eruption of relatively cool
plasma leads to magnetic reconnection too and this in turn drives the eruption of
hot plasma, so that both
hot and cold material are carried into space.
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge and some other international institutions investigating this «extreme stellar output» observed
jets of
hot plasma and gas bubbles (at about 10 million degrees) blasting out from the galaxy's central black hole.
Jets of
plasma stream out of the black hole close to the speed of light, and some distance away, they inflate into giant bubbles of
hot gas.
A small portion of material gets shot back out in powerful
jets of
hot gas, called
plasma, that can wreak havoc on their surroundings.