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Black Holes

Black holes are weird

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This image shows the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, located about 55 million light-years away in the Virgo Cluster. At the heart of M87 lies a supermassive black hole, one of the most massive known, which powers a spectacular relativistic jet — visible here as a faint blue streak emerging from the galactic core (highlighted by the red arrow).

This jet consists of particles accelerated to nearly the speed of light, launched by magnetic fields twisted by the rotating black hole and its surrounding accretion disk. LEARN MORE

Observations of this jet show that it is propagating out at approximately 6.3x the speed of light which is obviously not possible and this is called superluminal motion which is an optical illusion brought about by special relativity where time is compressed due to the relative velocity.

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TON 618

Tonantzitila 618 or TON 618, an exceptionally distant and luminous quasar (a highly luminous active galactic nucleus powered by a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy)
it has a redshift of z ≈ 2.219, corresponding to a lookback time of over 10.4 Billion Years and is at a distance of 18.2 Billion years due to the expanding of the universe.

At its centre lies a super massive black hole with an estimated mass of approximately 66 Billion Solar masses and radius of 1,300 AU, making it one of the most massive black holes known. The extraordinary luminosity of TON 618 arises from intense accretion activity, as matter spirals into the black hole and heats up in the accretion disk, emitting powerful radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum.

And the black Hole has a luminosity of 4×10^40 Watts (that is 4 followed by 40 zeros) which means it releases the same amount of energy of 140 trillion Suns EVERY SECOND!!! (1 trillion seconds is 100,000 years)

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”

– Master Oogway