#w49b

The 1,000-Year-Old Black Hole --Youngest in the Milky Way

The highly distorted supernova remnant, called W49B, is about a thousand years old, as seen from Earth, and is at a distance of about 26,000 light years away shown in the image above may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The image combines X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue and green, radio data from the NSF's Very Large Array in pink, and infrared data from Caltech's Palomar Observatory in yellow. The supernova explosions that destroy massive stars are generally symmetrical, with the stellar material blasting away more or less evenly in all directions. However, in the W49B supernova, material near the poles of the doomed rotating star was ejected at a much higher speed than material emanating from its equator. Jets shooting away from the star's poles mainly shaped the supernova explosion and its aftermath.

W49B (Supernova Remnant), Constellation: Aquila, Distance: 26,000 light-years