{"id":126316,"date":"2026-09-26T12:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=126316"},"modified":"2026-09-26T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:48:27","slug":"blazar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/blazar\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Blazar Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Astronomers tracked some of the blazars with the highest energy radiations revealing new clues about the sources of X-ray emission in these energetic objects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Blazar<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blazars are among the most <\/span><b>energetic objects in the Universe.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Formation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They <\/span><b>typically form<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>young galaxies or galaxies undergoing a collision<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A blazar consists of a <\/span><b>supermassive <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/black-hole\/\" target=\"_blank\">black hole<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>accretion disk<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>the galaxy that hosts them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>active galaxies powered by supermassive black holes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at their centres, where matter falling towards the <\/span><b>black hole releases large amounts of energy.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These <\/span><b>systems also emit high-speed particle jets<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> directed close to Earth\u2019s line of sight, making them appear exceptionally bright.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A particularly extreme group of <\/span><b>these objects are TeV blazars<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which produce very-high-energy gamma rays <\/span><b>reaching tera-electron volt energies.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Significance of Blazars<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are instrumental for <\/span><b>exploring extreme physics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that cannot be recreated on Earth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The relativistic jets they produce offer clues about <\/span><b>how matter behaves near supermassive black holes.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Challenges in Observation<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the powerful jets from blazars are directed almost toward Earth, their X-ray spectra are generally <\/span><b>dominated by emission from the jet.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This makes it difficult to identify radiation from other parts of the galaxy, such as the accretion disk around the black hole.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2314819&amp;reg=48&amp;lang=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blazar are among the most energetic objects in the Universe. 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