EdEon News | May 9, 2025
NASA’s Swift and Fermi research missions continues
Written by Hannah Hellman
NASA’s Swift and Fermi high-energy astrophysics research missions continue to help us discover the most energetic happenings in our Universe. Swift is celebrating its 20th anniversary in March and EdEon’s graphic artists, Aurore Simonnet, continues to inspire with her creative and artistic renditions of scientific discoveries from these missions.
Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a galaxy.
International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never seen before using data from NASA missions and other facilities. The features include the launch of a plasma jet moving at nearly one-third the speed of light and unusual, rapid X-ray fluctuations likely arising from near the very edge of the black hole.