Astronomers Spot Powerful ‘UFO’ Blasting From a Distant Black Hole

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X-ray observations reveal layered black hole winds racing through the early universe from hyper-luminous quasar WISSH13.

The “UFO” Is Not an Alien Object

The Black Hole Sits Inside WISSH13

The Discovery Came From X-Ray Telescopes

Two Wind Components Were Found

One Wind Looks Persistent

The Faster Wind Seems More Episodic

The Structure May Have a Spine and Sheath

The Outflow Is Enormously Powerful

It Was Found in a Non-Lensed Quasar

The Wind Could Shape Its Galaxy

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The headline sounds like science fiction, but the “UFO” here has nothing to do with aliens. In astronomy, it means an ultra-fast outflow: a violent wind of gas launched from the region around a feeding supermassive black hole.

Astronomers studying a distant hyper-luminous quasar called WISSH13 have detected one of the most powerful examples ever seen. The system is so far away that researchers are looking at it as it was roughly 2 billion years after the Big Bang, during a peak era of black hole and galaxy growth.

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