NASA’s WISE Spots Black Hole Jet Flaring

NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has imaged a jet flaring from a black hole named GX 339-4, more than 20,000 light-years away, near the heart of the Milky Way.
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<a><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/590558_full.jpg" alt="Artist's concept of the flaring black hole, GX 339-4. It is surrounded by an accretion disk (red) from a neighboring star (yellow orb). Some of this material is not drawn into the hole, but instead forms jets (yellow flows above and below the disk). (NASA)" title="Artist's concept of the flaring black hole, GX 339-4. It is surrounded by an accretion disk (red) from a neighboring star (yellow orb). Some of this material is not drawn into the hole, but instead forms jets (yellow flows above and below the disk). (NASA)" width="590" class="size-medium wp-image-1797487"/></a>
Artist's concept of the flaring black hole, GX 339-4. It is surrounded by an accretion disk (red) from a neighboring star (yellow orb). Some of this material is not drawn into the hole, but instead forms jets (yellow flows above and below the disk). (NASA)
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