Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: Supermassive Black Hole Seen Blasting Neighboring Galaxy
Supermassive Black Hole Seen Blasting Neighboring Galaxy
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 18, 2007; Page A03
'A jet of highly charged radiation from a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy is blasting another galaxy nearby -- an act of galactic violence that astronomers said yesterday they have never seen before. Using images from the orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other sources, scientists said the extremely intense jet from the larger galaxy can be seen shooting across 20,000 light-years of space and plowing into the outer gas and dust of the smaller one.'
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