NASA’s Hubble Telescope has captured unprecedented details of the quasar 3C 273, highlighting complex structures and energetic jets near its central black hole, offering new insights into the mechanics of quasars and their galactic environments. Credit: NASA, ESA, Bin Ren (Université Côte d’Azur/CNRS), John Bahcall (IAS), Joseph DePasquale (STScI) (ScitechDaily, What Are These Weird Structures Hubble Spotted Near a Monster Black Hole?)
The quasar (or galaxy) 3C273 is an interesting object. Distance to it is 25 billion light years. And it's the most distant object. We can see using backyard telescopes. The quasar 3C273 creates the L or mechanic's wrench-looking structure near it. That structure can form when the supermassive black hole's relativistic jet impacts some cosmic nebula near that quasar. But there is another thing that can form that strange structure.
Another interesting detail is that there seem to be two more jets out from the bright quasar. Those two jets are below left in the quasar quite near the main jet. They are visible in the image, where the coronograph covers the bright area of the quasar 3C273. Those structures look like trumpets or Shrek's horns. The upper can be a star or another quasar near the edge of the quasar but the lower jet is coming out from the quasar. Those details are visible in the image where light is blocked.
"A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar. This allows astronomers to see unprecedented details near the black hole such as weird filaments, lobes, and a mysterious L-shaped structure, probably caused by small galaxies being devoured by the black hole. Located 2.5 billion light-years away, 3C 273 is the first quasar (quasi-stellar object) ever discovered, in 1963. Credit: NASA, ESA, Bin Ren (Université Côte d’Azur/CNRS), John Bahcall (IAS), Joseph DePasquale (STScI) (ScitechDaily, What Are These Weird Structures Hubble Spotted Near a Monster Black Hole?)
There might be the vortex beams around that jet. That kind of structure can form when the relativistic jet impacts with a smaller black hole's jet or travels through its accelerating disk. As the quasar itself the protogalaxy forms around the black hole. But those small dwarf galaxies have smaller black holes that can be stellar mass or low-medium mass. Those black holes are lightweight if we compare them with monstrous supermassive black holes like 3C273. (ScitechDaily, What Are These Weird Structures Hubble Spotted Near a Monster Black Hole?)
"A two-panel image of quasar 3C 273, taken by different Hubble instruments. The top panel is a WFPC2 image of 3C 273. It looks like a bright white car headlight. There’s a linear orange-white smoke-like feature stretching to the 4 o’clock position, an extragalactic jet launched from the quasar in the center of the black hole of an unseen galaxy. Below the title is a color key showing which filters were used to create the image and which color is assigned to each filter: F450W is blue, F606W is orange." (ScitechDaily, What Are These Weird Structures Hubble Spotted Near a Monster Black Hole?)
"Compass arrows at bottom right corner show the orientation of the image on the sky; north arrow points in the 11 o’clock direction; east arrow points toward 8 o’clock. A scale bar at bottom left corner is labeled “182,000 light-years” over “15 arc seconds.” The STIS coronagraph image in the bottom panel is roughly the same as the WFPC2 image, but in blue shades. A black circle blocks the glare of the quasar. Blue-colored filamentary material can be seen near the black hole. The extragalactic jet is still visible." (ScitechDaily, What Are These Weird Structures Hubble Spotted Near a Monster Black Hole?)
"Credit: NASA, ESA, Bin Ren (Université Côte d’Azur/CNRS), John Bahcall (IAS), Joseph DePasquale (STScI)" (ScitechDaily, What Are These Weird Structures Hubble Spotted Near a Monster Black Hole?)
A supermassive black hole can form when an interstellar or intergalactic nebula falls because of its own gravity. Stellar or medium-mass black holes can form when blue hydrogen-burning supergiants detonate as supernovas or when two or more supergiants collide.
Those things tell us about the very complicated interactions near that quasar. The quasar itself is very hot and active. The relativistic jet is also visible. And another thing that we can see is some kind of nebula that it just impacts. There are also proto galaxies that impact that extremely bright high-energy object. So the black hole in that quasar is the most dominating object in its neighborhood.
If we were about ten light-years distance from that object. It would be as bright as the sun. The quasar releases as much energy in a second as a galaxy's stars release during their entire lifetime. The quasars will turn into a galaxy in a couple of billion years. The quasars are mysterious objects in the young universe. The complete databases tell about the changes in the brightness of those quasars and their supermassive black holes.
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