Artist's illustration of galaxy with jets from a supermassive black hole
Date: 28 May 2015
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Copyright: ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada (ESO)
This artist's impression illustrates how high-speed jets from supermassive black holes would look. These outflows of plasma are the result of the extraction of energy from a supermassive black hole's rotation as it consumes the disc of swirling material that surrounds it. These jets have very strong emissions at radio wavelengths.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
