# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BlIxq1eH7P5
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11735107-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/6a66451a37.jpg
- **Posted:** 2018-07-12T15:46:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

This animation shows a supermassive black hole billions of times the mass of the Sun. This particular black hole anchors a type of galaxy called a blazar, which produces two jets of particles moving at nearly the speed of light — one of which points almost directly at Earth. 
On September 22, our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope saw a powerful flare of high-energy light from this blazar. At the same time, the National Science Foundation’s (@nsfgov) IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole detected a neutrino — a high-energy cosmic particle — from the same direction. 
The neutrino was the first we’ve ever detected from a source outside our galactic neighborhood, and this discovery is also the first time we’ve seen light and a neutrino from the same black hole source. Fermi and IceCube’s work represents a new chapter in multimessenger astronomy – viewing the same event using different messengers like light, particles and gravitational waves. 
#nasa #space #science #astronomy #blackhole #galaxy #light #particles #gammaray #blazar #neutrino

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science, nasa, space, neutrino, particles, blazar, gammaray, galaxy, blackhole, light, astronomy

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