NASA news: Scientists discover abnormal black hole (Image: GETTY)
Astronomers say the finding could give a valuable insight into how the galaxy was formed. Although NASA discovered the black hole in 1989, it received heightened attention in 2015 when it consumed an orbiting star. Not all of the star’s matter was consumed, however, as it was superheated by the black hole and ejected a recent report from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Australia has shown.
Instead of ejecting in a straight line, the jets omitted an unusual pattern which astronomers have regarded as a landmark discovery.
In a statement from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, University of Alberta's Gregory Sivakoff said: “We were gobsmacked by what we saw in this system — it was completely unexpected.”
Usually, the disks which surround the black hole spin on the same axis but the jet stream of the ejected matter shows that for once, that is not the case.
Professor Sivakoff
