A Quick Look at a Black Hole Outburst Caught on Video

Astronomers have caught a black hole hurling hot material into space at close to the speed of light. This flareup was captured in a new movie from NASA s Chandra Xray Observatory taken in 2018 and 2019. The black hole and its nearby companion star are located in our Galaxy about 10, 000 light years from Earth. The black hole s strong gravity pulls material away from the companion star into a disk surrounding the black hole. Some of this material is blasted away from the black hole in a pair of short be