Astronomers in Awe of Terrifying "Eye of Sauron" That's Pointed Straight at Earth | NYGazet

About 7.4 billion light-years away, a bright galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole that spews out jets of plasma is saddled with the clunky name of PKS 1424+240. But excited astronomers are giving it a more colorful and dramatic moniker in order to describe a new image of PKS 1424+240: the Eye of Sauron from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth. In a new study The picture of the celestial object — specifically called a blazar — has jets of radiation spinning around a hot bright center, which

A bright galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole that spews out cosmic radiation is pointing straight at us. Thankfully, the object, unimaginatively dubbed "PKS 1424+240," is located roughly 7.4 billion light-years away and likely won't pose ... [2708 chars]