[ExI] Hubble captures a black hole's 'shadow beams, ' yawning across space

[John Grigg]

"In images from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have spotted an
entirely new phenomenon. Reaching tens of thousands of light-years into the
void of space, vast shadows stretch from the centre of the galaxy IC 5063,
as though something is blocking the bright light from therein.

You've probably seen something very like it before – bright beams from the
Sun when it's just below the horizon and clouds or mountains only partially
block its light, known as crepuscular rays <http://optics.kulgun.net/Rays/>.
According to astronomers, the shadows from IC 5063 could be something very
similar. They're just a whole lot bigger – at least 36,000 light-years in
each direction."
https://www.livescience.com/black-hole-shadow-beams-captured-hubble.html
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