{"id":19229,"date":"2026-04-19T01:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/astronomers-measure-the-mind-blowing-power-and-speed-of-black-hole-jets-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T01:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:52:37","slug":"astronomers-measure-the-mind-blowing-power-and-speed-of-black-hole-jets-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/astronomers-measure-the-mind-blowing-power-and-speed-of-black-hole-jets-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers measure the mind-blowing power and speed of black hole jets for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — For the first time, scientists have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole.<\/p>\n

The jet power from this relatively close black hole-star system is equivalent to 10,000 suns, an international research team reported Thursday (April 16). <\/p>\n

They also tracked the jet speed: Roughly 355 million mph (571 million kph) — half the speed of light.<\/p>\n

Located 7,200 light-years away, Cygnus X-1 features not only a black hole — the first one ever identified more than a half-century ago — but a blue supergiant star, its constant companion. <\/p>\n

A light-year is nearly six trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometres).<\/p>\n

The University of Oxford’s Steve Prabu and his team based their findings on 18 years of high-resolution radio imaging obtained by a global telescope network. <\/p>\n

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He conducted the research while still at Australia’s Curtin University, which led the study published in Nature Astronomy.<\/p>\n

Prabu and his colleagues were able to measure the swift power of these “dancing jets” as he calls them, as they were pushed in opposite directions by the star’s wind. <\/p>\n

The group based its calculations on how much the jets were bent by the stellar wind as well as computer modeling.<\/p>\n

Until now, a black hole’s jet power had to be averaged over tens of thousands of years, the researchers said.<\/p>\n

Prabu said a key finding is that 10 per cent of all the energy released as matter falls toward the black hole is carried away by the jets.<\/p>\n

On the skimpy side as black holes go, the one in Cygnus X-1 is continually pulling gases from its stellar playmate as they orbit one another. <\/p>\n

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Discovered in the 1960s, the binary system is located in our Milky Way’s Cygnus, or swan, constellation.<\/p>\n

The supergiant star feeds material to the black hole, giving it “something to ‘eat’ and launch as jets”, Prabu said in an email.<\/p>\n

These jets can help scientists better understand how black holes help shape galaxies and other cosmic structures through large-scale shocks and turbulence.<\/p>\n

Prabu plans to apply similar techniques to other black holes. <\/p>\n

“It would be exciting to measure jet power in many more systems,” he said.<\/p>\n

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — For the first time, scientists have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole. The jet power from this relatively close black hole-star system is equivalent to 10,000 suns, an international research team reported Thursday (April 16).  They also tracked the jet speed: Roughly 355 million mph…<\/p>\n

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