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Black Hole Cluster Spawns Massive Cloud

Posted by kdawson on from the excuse-me dept.

Shifty Jim writes in with an article at space.com reporting that a cluster of galaxies harboring black holes may be the source of a massive cloud millions of light years across. Quoting: "A giant cloud of superheated gas 6 million light years wide might be formed by the collective sigh of several supermassive black holes, scientists say. The plasma cloud... might be the source of mysterious cosmic rays that permeate our universe... The plasma cloud is located about 300 million light years away near the Coma Cluster and is spread across a vast region of space thought to contain several galaxies with supermassive black holes... embedded at their centers."

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  1. At least it's not SPAM by anss123 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But I'm totally clueless how a Black hole can spawn anything. I thought they were 'Black holes', or have that changed recently?

    1. Re:At least it's not SPAM by owlstead · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Ugh, stupid copy/paste, that's 10 to the power of -28 watts. Not that much. Not enough to power a postcard with one of these irritating battery/chip/speaker combinations in it. Allthough these things may also be powered directly the dark forces that surround them.

  2. might be? by passionfruit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    might be the source?

    might be?

    there are probably a zillion black wholes and a gazillion such "cosmic clouds of superheated gas" in the universe. so what makes this guy think this particular "cloud" has agreater probability of being the source of the "cosmic rays" that "permeate" our universe?

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  3. Re:Nothing to see here?!!! by beset · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It still boggles the mind that anything we see now will have happened 300,000,000 years ago.

    The system / actions we're only just seeing happen now might have already been destroyed by old age / a huge intergalactic war. My money is on Lrr from Omicron Persei VIII.

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  4. Re:currently? by TheInvisiblePinkUnic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Time is also a frame of reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
    As long as /. is targeted for human readers
    The plasma cloud is located about 300 million light years away near the Coma Cluster
    holds good.

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