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December 18, 2007

Since THIS is REAL "But Alderan is Peaceful, We Have No Pants!" Stuff

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.



This composite image shows the jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy, at left, striking the edge of another galaxy. The image combines X-ray emissions seen by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (purple), optical and ultraviolet data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red and orange) and radio emissions from the Very Large Array and the MERLIN array (blue).

...maybe letting Hubble go blind would be a bad idea.

Posted by tree hugging sister at December 18, 2007 11:28 AM

Comments

Heh. The first photo of an interstellar fart!

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at December 18, 2007 03:11 PM

We need to keep searching through and observing more of the universe.

Posted by: Gunslinger at December 18, 2007 04:47 PM