The concept of black holes are kind of terrifying. They’re gigantic, not well understood cosmic phenomena and nothing that goes into them ever comes out again. However, experts say they may have gotten just a bit scarier, as they have found signs of black holes ejecting beams of plasma, one’s that can change direction without warning.
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00:00The concept of black holes are kind of terrifying, they're gigantic not well understood cosmic
00:08phenomena and nothing that goes into them ever comes out again.
00:12However experts say they may have just gotten a bit scarier as they have found signs of
00:16black holes ejecting beams of plasma, ones that can change direction without warning.
00:21Physicists say these beams are emitted when material passes into a black hole and interact
00:25with its powerful magnetic field.
00:26The black holes then fire out a beam of energy just like the Death Star from Star Wars, albeit
00:31less destructive.
00:32The wildest thing is that they keep pointing their beams in different directions.
00:36With the researchers writing about the phenomenon, these Death Star black holes are swiveling
00:40around and pointing at new targets, like the fictional space station in Star Wars.
00:44They say that a third of all of the black holes observed had changed direction dramatically,
00:48but they did so over a period of 10 million years or less.
00:52With the researchers adding, considering that these black holes are likely more than 10
00:55million years old, we consider a large change in direction over a few million years to be
01:00fast.
01:01Now the physicists say this raises more questions, namely why are these black holes changing
01:05direction and how does this impact star formation?