Powerful UFO spotted blasting from a distant black hole
Jun 16, 2026
Astronomers have detected one of the most powerful ultra-fast outflows ever seen from a distant supermassive black hole. Using XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, a team studied a hyper-luminous quasar at cosmic noon and found two distinct wind components blasting away from the black hole, details of which are o
utlined in a paper submitted to the arXiv preprint server on June 3. The study has been submitted to the journal Astronomy Astrophysics and is currently under minor revision. ...read more read less