The “The Lord of the Rings” novels and those who appreciated Peter Jackson’s award-winning film adaptations of the tale will recognize the Eye of Sauron. This term referred to how the main villain of the narrative, Sauron, monitored his warfare and sought the One Ring. Positioned at the pinnacle of Barad-dûr, the eye bore a likeness to a dark void encircled by fire.
A recent finding called this antagonist to mind as a group of scientists aimed to comprehend how formidable jets from blazars can propel particles to astonishingly high energies, generating both gamma rays and neutrinos. Their results appeared in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal titled “Examining the jet cone of the neutrino-associated very high-energy blazar PKS 1424+240” on August 12, 2025.
In this research, the team concentrated on a blazar known as PKS 1424+240 (a blazar is a term for a galaxy energized by a black hole). The blazar under examination bore a striking resemblance to the Eye of Sauron, and their investigation may contribute to elucidating what is known as the Doppler factor dilemma.
