UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., June 4 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The fastest wind from near a supermassive black hole ever measured at ultraviolet wavelengths has been discovered inside the constellation Pegasus using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a large-scale astronomical project designed to map a fraction of the sky in unprecedented detail.
A paper describing the research, led by astronomers at York University in Toronto, Canada, and including three Penn State astronomers, published today (June 4) in the Astrophysical Journal.
"These investigations of the environments of black holes - some that have masses of a billion times that of the sun or more - are providing...