Quasar Spotted in the Milky Way!

Astronomers have been pointing their telescopes up at the night sky for centuries .

But in the 1950s , they set out on a quest to map out what the universe looks like in radio waves rather than visible light.

At first , they didn't see anything out of the ordinary.

But then, among the same galaxies that emitted visible light also emitted radio waves.

They were far too small to be galaxies, so they were known as quasi stellar radio sources.

Now, they are some of the brightest objects in the universe, some of which are so bright you can make it out from billions of light years away.

A team of scientists used images of just one nearby micro quasar to gain a deeper.

SS433 is a type A super giant orbiting around a stellar mass black hole in a binary system.

As the black hole accretes material from the Super giant star, it produces a pair of jets perpendicular to the line of sight from Earth , meaning that The Jets themselves will never actually hit us or reach our detectors.

But as The Jets propagate outward, they emit light in all sorts of directions, allowing us to image them at various wavelengths and learn more about how they are produced.