Black Hole Blast Stuns Scientists with One-Fifth Light Speed Winds

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A never-before-seen cosmic event has left scientists speechless. A supermassive black hole, 130 million light-years away in the galaxy NGC 3783, suddenly erupted with a powerful X-ray flare—then launched ultra-fast winds at one-fifth the speed of light. For the first time ever, astronomers watched this dramatic process unfold in real time. Even more mind-blowing? It mirrors solar eruptions here on Earth. Could black holes and stars be more alike than we thought? WooGlobe Ref : WGA779899 For licensing and to use this video, please email licensing@wooglobe.com

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00:00A mysterious cosmic blast just erupted from a supermassive black hole,

00:04and it has scientists stunned.

00:06130 million light-years away, in a galaxy called NGC 3783,

00:10something extraordinary happened.

00:13A supermassive black hole, 30 million times heavier than our Sun,

00:17suddenly unleashed a powerful X-ray flare.

00:20Moments later, it launched winds across space at 60,000 km per second.

00:24That's one-fifth the speed of light.

00:26Astronomers have never seen winds this fast form so quickly, within just a single day.

00:31Using two powerful space telescopes, researchers watched it all unfold in real time.

00:37They believed the flare was triggered when the black hole's twisted magnetic field suddenly snapped,

00:42like a cosmic rubber band breaking.

00:44And here's the wild part.

00:46This untwisting mirrors how solar flares erupt from our Sun.

00:50That means black holes and stars might be more alike than we ever imagined.

00:54And this discovery could change what we know about how galaxies evolve.

00:58It's the first time we've watched a black hole blast the universe with wind this fast, and this furious.

01:03This is...

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