Rapidly Spinning Black Hole is Spitting Out Blobs of Plasma

An artist's illustration of the black hole V404 Cygni. Image Credit: ICRAR.
An artist's illustration of the black hole V404 Cygni. Image Credit: ICRAR.

Black holes, those beguiling singularities that sit on the precipice of the known and the unknown, keep surprising us with their behaviour. As organizations like the Event Horizon Telescope have made clear, there’s a lot we don’t know about the holes, and worse than that, we don’t even know how much we don’t know.

Now scientists have observed a new phenomenon that adds to the black hole mystique: a rapidly spinning black hole that ejects massive blobs of plasma.

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