These black holes swivel around and shoot beams at objects in the cosmos. These beams change di-rections in about a million years.
These jets (beams) are composed of plasma particles supercharged by the magnetic field of black hole.
Travelling at around light speed, they reach distances several light-years from their source.
However, it is unclear whether the beam impacts existing planets and stars.
Scientists examined erupting supermassive black holes using NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observa-tory and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA).
Chandra X-ray Observatory
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the world’s most powerful X-ray telescope.
Chandra was sensitive to X-ray sources 100 times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope, enabled by its mirrors’ high angular resolution.
It is part of NASA’s fleet of “Great Observatories” along with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the now-deorbited Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
It is named after the Nobel Prize-winning Indian astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
The VLBA is a system of ten radio telescopes that are located in Mexico.