Space Winds Unleashed: First Map of Outflows From Nearby Quasar I Zwicky 1

For the first time, astronomers mapped the outflows from one of the closest quasars — I Zwicky 1.

Quasars are bright cores of galaxies powered by the supermassive black hole in their center. The team has probed gas outflows in I Zwicky 1 to map its system of clouds being blown away at tens to thousands of kilometers per second.