
A NASA mission has observed a supermassive black hole pointing its highly energetic jet straight toward Earth. Don’t panic just yet, though. As fearsome as this cosmic event is, it’s located at a very safe distance of about 400 million light-years away.
https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/supermassive-black-hole-found-spitting-a-giant-high-energy-jet-toward-earth
Gee. So reassuring.
FWIW I had never heard the term “blazar” before reading the linked article.
Sounded like a cross between Happy Days and late 1970s Japanese anime.
And it just so happens there’s a new Ultraman Blazar “live action” on Japanese TV from this past July…
