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Galaxy blasts neighbor with deadly jet

Posted December 18, 2007 2:29 PM

From MSNBC.com: Space:

For the first time astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole blasting its galactic neighbor with a deadly beam of energy.

The "death star galaxy," as NASA astronomers called it, could obliterate the atmospheres of planets but also trigger the birth of stars in its wake of its destructive beam. Fortunately, the cosmic violence is a safe distance from our own neck of the cosmos.

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12/19/2007 12:42 AM

The other end of the drain perhaps? The link of another black hole jetting out on our side? That we can see it in several data arrays: x ray, optical and ultraviolet seems to be traceable physics, towards viewing the origin side of the jet that we see. Then send a traceable form to the source to see it if jets out the other side measurable results.

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12/19/2007 8:34 AM

Oh, the ... humanity?

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12/19/2007 10:14 AM

Forgive me as I am not a cosmologist?? by any means. But I'm confused by this story.

I though black holes sucked in everything around them, including light energy, which is why they are "black". How does a super massive object that sucks all energy end up shooting out massive amounts of the stuff.
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