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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!
Oh please, as if Fox News could produce that much energy, then they'd be useful for something.
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.
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)