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NASA’s Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon”

A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and discussed in our latest press release. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it is being illuminated by the leftover glow from the big bang itself. Astronomers used Chandra and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to study this black…