To the point
A look into the heart of an active galaxy: Astronomers have captured an image of the origin of a cosmic jet. The image and its artificial coloring remind of the eye of Sauron.
The question of the origin of neutrinos: PKS 1424240 is the brightest neutrino-emitting object of its kind. However, the concentrated mass flow is too slow to explain the emission of neutrinos.
Spiral magnetic fields accelerate particles: 15 years of precise observations with the Very Long Baseline Array have enabled a detailed analysis of the jet’s origin. The radio image could solve this problem, as it shows ring-shaped magnetic fields, an environment that acts like a spring and can accelerate particles to high energies. This in turn explains neutrinos and high-energy gamma radiation.
It’s a shitty headline (encouraged by the scientists in their own report) but an interesting discovery.
I hope they’ve called that sector of space “Mordor….”
One does not simply warp into Mordor.
However, the concentrated mass flow is too slow to explain the emission of neutrinos.
It must be aliens.
Is that you Avi Loeb?
It’s me, Aliens.
“How can we make our discovery sensational enough for mass media?”
