Scientists track 27 years of a supermassive black hole blasting plasma at our planet - Space

"This is the most extreme regime in which we can test general relativity, the best and most elegant theory we have so far to describe gravity and spacetime."

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Click for next article (Main) images of a a blazar jet as it flows through space (inset) an illustration of the supermassive black hole engine driving these events (Image credit: Foschi et al/ Nature (2026)) Copy link Reddit Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Scientists have created a 27-year-long video reconstruction of the high-energy jets of a blazar, which is a supermassive black hole blasting plasma straight at Earth. The findings delivered some surprises.