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astronomers have made an exciting
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discovery about a small black hole
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105 this black hole is sucking in gas
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and dust and astronomers have spotted
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strange changes in the jet of Highly
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magnetic plasma that it shoots out these
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changes happen very quickly within a
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fraction of a second and were detected
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by the 500 M aperture spherical radio
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telescope that is f St in
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China GRS 1915 plus 105 is a unique
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object consisting of a regular star
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orbiting a stellar black hole which
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formed after a massive star
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died as the star moves around the black
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hole some of its material gets pulled in
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but not all of it gets swallowed instead
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some of the material gets shot out as a
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jet from the black holes poles the the
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astronomers think that the changes in
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the Jet's energy might be because the
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black hole's rotation is not aligned
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with the matter it is eating this
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misalignment causes the jet to wobble
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like a spinning top when the jet points
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away its energy drops but then it
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returns to normal when the system
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rotates back the observations show that
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The Peculiar signal in the jet has a
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rough period of 0.2 seconds and it only
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appears under special conditions the
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researchers were lucky enough to observe
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this signal twice in January 2021 and
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June 2022 the cause of these
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oscillations remains a mystery but
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scientists believe that one possible
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explanation is the Precision of the jet
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this means that the jet Direction
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regularly points towards different
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directions and returns to the original
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Direction every 0.2 seconds further
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research is needed to fully understand
