How can you overlook anything about a jet of glorious gas that was almost previously coming from the heart of a galaxy? It is possible if that galaxy is 12.8 billion light years away.
Comments from the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have now revealed previously unidentified objects about the 13-billion-year-old PSO J0309 + 27 galaxy galaxy. This galaxy is a blazar, to quasar air on steroids. Its jet of superhot gas is headed toward Earth (but don’t start prepping doomsday – it doesn’t threaten us). PSO J0309 + 27 is now the brightest radio transmission blazar ever seen so far in space, and can be seen in the image above as it was when the universe was smaller billion years old.
Now that your mind is blown enough, the universe was only 7 percent of the current age when the blazar looked like that. Billions of years is nothing in cosmic terms. Blazars from this early in the universe are very rare, but an analysis of the features of this blazar can clarify why there were so many people who apparently created so long ago in the depths of time.
“Not many people know about it [about the] a time when the Earth was young and when the first sources (including active galactic nuclei, AGNs) sent the gas around them in the period known as cosmic reionization, ”said astronomer Cristiana Spignola, who led a study recently published in Astronomy & Astronomy.
There are some theoretical models for why blazars were so rare at the beginning of the universe, and the Spignola team was able to support them with new ideas on PSO J0309 + 27.
Blazars are refueled by fuel from the supermassive black hole at the galactic center, also known as the active galactic nucleus or AGN. Our very own AGN is Sagittarius A * (Sag A *). The black hole inside a blazar brings even very high black holes to the very top. As the black hole of the blazar destroys the innards of a star and other orbiting material in its collecting disk, the disc explodes with heat and dissipates energy from all imaginable locations in the electromagnetic spectrum. out into space. This includes the radio waves being released from the AGN of PSO J0309 + 27, which is as much as a billion suns.
Jets of energy are released from each end of the AGN, and of course place AGNs in addition to other black holes, so what we see is the pier from just one end of a heart. this fault. Since blazars are distinguished by the way in which their radiations point directly toward Earth, so we present them with fragments that took billions of years to reach us. However, the jets are thought to be visible because photons full of energy escape earlier.
Where you will not be afraid to jet this blazar and build underground shelters, we should look forward to seeing through the port it offers to the nascent universe.