How can you overlook something about an almost preternatural jet of bright, bright gas coming out of the core of a galaxy? It is possible that the galaxy is 12.8 billion light-years away.
Observations made by the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have now revealed unknowns about the courage of the 13 billion-year-old PSO J0309 + 27 galaxy. This galaxy is a blazar, practically a steroid quasar. His super hot gas jet is directed at Earth (but don’t start preparing for the day of judgment – it’s not a danger to us). PSO J0309 + 27 is now the brightest radio blazer ever seen so far in space and is seen in the image above as it was when the universe was less than a billion years old.
Now that your mind was blown enough, the universe was only 7% of its current age, when the blazer looked like that. A billion years is nothing in cosmic terms. Blazers from the beginning of the universe are rare, but analysis of the properties of this blazer can shed light on why so few are supposed to have formed so much in the depths of time.
“Little is known from an observational point of view [about the] while the Universe was young and the first sources (including active galactic nuclei, AGNs) ionized their surrounding gas during the so-called cosmic reionization, ”said astronomer Cristiana Spignola, who led a recently published study Astronomy and astrophysics.
There are some theoretical models for why blazers were so rare at the dawn of the universe, and Spignola’s team managed to support them with new observations of PSO J0309 + 27.
The blazers are spilled with fuel from the supermassive black hole in the galactic center, otherwise known as the active galactic nucleus or AGN. Our own AGN is Sagittarius A * (Sag A *). The black hole in a blazar even leads to supermassive black holes. As the black hole in the blazer devours the interior of stars and other matter that revolves around its storage disk, the disk burns heat and sends energy from every imaginable part of the electromagnetic spectrum into space. This includes radio waves that are released from the AGO of PSO J0309 + 27, which is as massive as a billion suns.
The energy jets are discharged from both ends of the AGN and, in fact, differentiate the AGNs from other black holes, so what we see is the jet from just one end of the core of this blazar. Because blazers are separated by the way their beams of radiation go directly to Earth, so we are rained down by particles that have lasted billions of years to us. However, jets are considered transparent because high-energy photons escape earlier.
Far from being afraid of the jet of this blazer and building underground shelters, we should look forward to seeing through the portal it offers to the born universe.