Australia: Curtin University astronomers have produced the most complete photographs of the nearest active black hole to Earth as part of an international team.

According to sources, the discovery, which was published in the Nature Astronomy magazine and made public on Thursday, took a deep dive into the black hole at the heart of the galaxy Centaurus A, which is roughly 12 million light-years away.

The spewing black hole expanded across a length comparable to 16 moons placed side by side in the night sky, despite being galaxies far away. It is not, however, visible to the naked eye. The photographs were created with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope, which can detect and image transmitted radio waves and is located in outback Western Australia.

"These radio waves emanate from material being pulled into the supermassive black hole in the centre of the galaxy," said lead author Benjamin McKinley of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research's Curtin University node (ICRAR).As the 55 million-times-mass-of-the-Sun black hole emerges, it feeds on gas and ejects material at near-light speed, causing "radio bubbles" to grow outwards.

"It forms a disc around the black hole, and when matter is ripped apart as it approaches the black hole, powerful jets form on either side of the disc, ejecting most of the material back into space, probably over a million light-years away," McKinley explained.

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