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Sophie Berdugo

YOU WONT BELIEVE: James webb telescope finds something very exciting shooting out of first black hole ever imaged - You Need To See This

Infrared image of a pink jet of particles blasting out of a bright supermassive black hole.

New images from the James Webb telescope have captured previously unseen details of the gargantuan jets shooting out of the famous black hole M87* — the first-ever black hole to be directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope.

The new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images, published Sept. 22 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, have also revealed the clearest views yet of the massive counter-jet that's ricocheting through space in the opposite direction, the study authors found.

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