April 30, 2019

The black hole V404 Cygni swings like a spinning top

An article published in the journal “Nature” reports the observation of a jet of materials emitted by the black hole V404 Cygni which changed orientation in no more than a few hours. A team led by James Miller-Jones of the Curtin University node of the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Australia, used the Very Long Baseline Array radio telescopes to study the area around the black hole during one of its periodic bursts of considerable intensity. This made it possible to observe for the first time jets of materials changing orientation in a few hours or even minutes.