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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. Re:foxnews holes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    While Fox News may be sided it does report things no other news stations report. If you watch the libtard news outlets you need to throw in a bit of Fox to get the whole story.