NASA's telescope recorded a mysterious object that was hit by a jet of plasma from a black hole

Scientists are lost in conjecture, which of the space objects known to science could have left such a strange X-ray trail after the collision.

NASA researchers from the space X-ray observatory “Chandra” found in the images from the Centauri A galaxy a strangely shaped trail from a powerful jet of plasma from a giant black hole after a collision with an unknown object.

Phys.org writes about it.

The closest active galaxy to us, Centauri A, is located at a distance of 12 million light years. At its center is a supermassive black hole that “feeds” on the surrounding disk of hot matter. But sometimes, under the influence of the black hole's gravity, huge jets of plasma are ejected from this disk into space, which, like the tentacles of a universal octopus, stretch across the galaxy. In one of the new images taken by the Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers saw that one of the…