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Largest Eruption In the Known Universe Is ~100 Times the Size of Milky Way

StartsWithABang writes: At the center of almost every galaxy is a supermassive black hole (SMBH); at the center of almost every cluster is a supermassive galaxy with some of the largest SMBHs in the Universe. And every once in a while, a galactocentric black hole will become active, emitting tremendous amounts of radiation out into the Universe as it devours matter. This radiation can cut across the spectrum, from the X-ray down to the radio. At the heart of MS 0735.6+7421, there's a >10^10 solar mass black hole that appears to have been active for hundreds of millions of years, something unheard of!

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  1. Still by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Still sucks less than your mum.

  2. Re:Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh please, as if Fox News could produce that much energy, then they'd be useful for something.

  3. Re:Largest known? by St.Creed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd hate to be at just a mere 2.6 lightyears distance from an event that caused two volumes both 600000 lightyears across to be filled with hot, X-ray emitting gas.

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  4. Re:Puzzled by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Dude, you're the worse kind of pedant, the kind who is wrong.

    It is indeed greater force (F = G * m_1 * m_2 / r^2)

    Same acceleration due to /gravity/, but that's not actually what schlachter said.

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