Using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers witnessed a massive black hole jet slam into an unknown object in space.

A new image by the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an unidentified celestial object, dubbed C4, getting blasted by a jet of energetic particles, raising questions about its identity.

To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture the size of the Earth. One participating EHT telescope, highlighted here, is the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), one of the powerful telescopes at the European Southern Observatory in the Chilean Andes.

Imagine a cosmic sledgehammer hurtling through space at nearly the speed of light, suddenly smacking into something mysterious lurking in the darkness. That’s exactly what astronomers have captured in a groundbreaking image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory,