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The MAGIC telescopes at the observatory of Roque de los Muchachos, Canary Islands, have registered the quickest gamma ray jets ever seen to date around a supermassive black hole.
ICCUB researchers involved in the MAGIC collaboration propose a new mechanism for understanding the formation of such rapid gamma ray jet emissions. They explain that this phenomena may be analog to what occurs during an electric storm. Around the magnetic poles of the black hole emptyness regions form, and then a high potential energy difference is created giving in turn the consequent discharge in form of gamma rays. Therefore, what researchers observe is a supermassive black hole implicated in a high energy storm.
ICCUB researchers involved in the MAGIC collaboration propose a new mechanism for understanding the formation of such rapid gamma ray jet emissions. They explain that this phenomena may be analog to what occurs during an electric storm. Around the magnetic poles of the black hole emptyness regions form, and then a high potential energy difference is created giving in turn the consequent discharge in form of gamma rays. Therefore, what researchers observe is a supermassive black hole implicated in a high energy storm.
