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Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy
StarCraft 2 writes "This composite image shows the jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy striking the edge of another galaxy, the first time such an interaction has been found. In the image, it is clearly seen how the jet from the main galaxy on the lower left is striking its companion galaxy to the upper right. The jet impacts the companion galaxy at its edge and is then disrupted and deflected, much like how a stream of water from a hose will splay out after hitting a wall at an angle.
The composite image was made by combining data from Chandra, Hubble and several other systems."
Apparently it's not the first time, or this article is a dupe of a previous article. (I think the latter is just a bit more likely.)
It's scary just how many different things out there seem waiting to kill you; from asteroids to stellar explosions to, now, death-star black-holes.
On the other hand: I'd imagine it's terribly useful to see what a galaxy does to such an emission. It's got to tell us a lot about things like the real density of the glactic body, and to what extent, if any, a galaxy clears space around it.
Check this link to learn more about this phenomenon. It's a BBC documentary well worth your time.
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That's no moon!
Launchy.net changed my world.
The galaxy shot first.
Anyway, the galaxies have many awesome processes -- nebulas, supernovae, supermassive blackholes and that strange darkmatter 'void' -- some that we can, perhaps, take advantage of.
If the other galaxy doesn't learn to fight back now, it's going to get pushed around for the rest of its life.
We get lots of dupes. Perhaps the editors could use google to screen for them. I put the following into google to find this dupe:
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That's no moon!
If course it isn't, silly. It's a black hole.
-mcgrew
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mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Anyway, the galaxies have many awesome processes -- nebulas, supernovae, supermassive blackholes and that strange darkmatter 'void' -- some that we can, perhaps, take advantage of.
Look, dude, we're really really stupid and primitive*. We don't even understand subatomic phenomena very well. We are incredibly, mind-numbingly ignorant. There's a far greater chance that rather than taking advantage of these processes, they will take advantage of US.
-mcgrew
*Offtopic here, but I think the idea of alians from space visiting earth is really silly. What are the odds? I think it far more likely that if UFOs are aliens, they're from the one and only planet that we know has life.
We have only been here as a species for a hundred thousand years. Ten million years ago we were small mouselike things. What will our descendants be like ten million years in the future? If time travel is possible they will have figured out how to accomplish it. I think if the Roswell aliens are real and non-human (actually I don't, I think they're "Skunk Works"), they are the species we evolve into going back for a little archaeology.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
That's some nappy-headed holes there. I'm gonna tell you that now, man....
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