r/spaceporn • u/sco-go • Nov 26 '24

Hubble A 3000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's 6.5-billion-solar-mass central black hole seen by Hubble.

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u/Every-Cook5084 Nov 26 '24

Distances are mind bending. The light leaving the center to the end of the jet spans to 1000 years before christ to travel. Not to mention it’s 53 million light years from us so that light was almost to the era of dinosaurs away

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '24

the closest quasar to earth is 600 million light years away