A black hole less than 8,000 light-years away is slowly devouring its companion star. As it does so, it fires jets of plasma at nearly half the speed of light. The system is V404 Cygni , and astronomers have discovered that the black hole is wobbling. But if that weren’t strange enough, it’s actually dragging the fabric of the Universe around with it. Welcome back to my blog " Mystery of Galaxy ", and in this article we’re going to take a look at one of the strangest findings from a nearby black hole. An artist’s impression of a black hole, similar to V404 Cygni, devouring material from an orbiting companion star. image credit: ESO / L. Calçada. V404 Cygni lies about 7800 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus the Swan . It’s a binary system that’s home to a black hole about 9 times the Sun’s mass. The black hole was likely formed in a core-collapse supernova. If a star's core reaches 2.8 solar masses or greater, there’s no force in the Universe that will preve...
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