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https://sea.mashable.com/space/34437/bla...ng-footage

The M87 galaxy is monstrous contains several trillions of stars, compared to our Milky Way's hundreds of billions & the supermassive black hole center is shooting an outstretched beam of energy into space. Hubble Telescope, operated by NASA & European Space Agency captured new image of energetic cosmic event, which produces a beam of superheated gas 3,000 light-years long (a single light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles). NASA calls this jet "blowtorch,"& it seems to be triggering many stars near its trajectory to erupt.

"We don't know what's going on, it's just a very exciting finding," Alec Lessing of Stanford Uni, who led research into finding, said in an agency statement. "This means there's something missing from our understanding of how black hole jets interact with their surroundings."

Black holes themselves produce no light. But material can rapidly spin around black holes, forming a vibrant "accretion disk" that radiates light. & sometimes material falling into a black hole can "become rerouted" into 2 jets, firing in opposite directions, NASA explained. In Hubble telescope image below, colossal elliptical galaxy M87, which is shaped like a giant egg, looks like "a translucent, fuzzy white cotton ball," ESA explained. The jet, as you can see, is wavy blue beam blasting out from galactic core, home to supermassive black hole (it has the mass of 5.4 billion suns).