{"id":6434,"date":"2025-04-29T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:20:09","slug":"building-the-largest-map-of-the-cosmos-media-inaf-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/building-the-largest-map-of-the-cosmos-media-inaf-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking black: shockwaves from stellar black holes \u2013 Like the ripples produced by a Stone thrown into a Pond &#8211; Media INAF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Black holes, even relatively small ones, leave significant imprints in space, which extend far beyond their immediate surroundings. Research conducted with the MeerKat radio telescope shows that stellar-mass black holes emit powerful jets of energy that in turn generate enormous shock waves, thus sculpting the surrounding space and influencing the galactic surroundings &#8211; Two articles on Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics with first and second author our researcher Sara Motta \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.inaf.it\/2025\/04\/28\/bow-shock-buchi-neri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story on Media INAF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"804\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaraMotta-29-04-2025-ENG.png\" alt=\"Artist's impression of a jet emitted by a stellar-mass black hole and the resulting shock wave. Credit: Danielle Futserlaar\/Sron\" class=\"wp-image-6441\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Artist&#8217;s impression of a jet emitted by a stellar-mass black hole and the resulting shock wave. Credit: Danielle Futserlaar\/Sron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black holes, even relatively small ones, leave significant imprints in space, which extend far beyond their immediate surroundings. Research conducted with the MeerKat radio telescope shows that stellar-mass black holes emit powerful jets of energy that in turn generate enormous shock waves, thus sculpting the surrounding space and influencing the galactic surroundings &#8211; Two articles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[528,224,88,89,529],"class_list":["post-6434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-cygnus-x-1-2","tag-grs-1915105-en","tag-meerkat-radio-telescope-en","tag-sara-motta-en","tag-stellar-mass-black-holes"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaraMotta-29-04-2025-ENG.png",1440,804,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaraMotta-29-04-2025-ENG.png",150,84,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaraMotta-29-04-2025-ENG.png",300,168,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaraMotta-29-04-2025-ENG.png",768,429,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaraMotta-29-04-2025-ENG.png",1024,572,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaraMotta-29-04-2025-ENG.png",1440,804,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaraMotta-29-04-2025-ENG.png",1440,804,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Black holes, even relatively small ones, leave significant imprints in space, which extend far beyond their immediate surroundings. Research conducted with the MeerKat radio telescope shows that stellar-mass black holes emit powerful jets of energy that in turn generate enormous shock waves, thus sculpting the surrounding space and influencing the galactic surroundings &#8211; Two articles on Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics with first and second author our researcher Sara Motta \u2013 Read the full story on Media INAF Artist&#8217;s impression of a jet emitted by a stellar-mass black hole and the resulting shock wave. Credit: Danielle Futserlaar\/Sron<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6443,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions\/6443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}