Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Caught on Tape: Death Star Galaxy - Technology on The Huffington Post

Caught on Tape: Death Star Galaxy - Technology on The Huffington Post: "The latest act of senseless violence caught on tape is cosmic in scope: A black hole in a 'death star galaxy' blasting a neighboring galaxy with a deadly jet of radiation and energy.

A fleet of space and ground telescopes have captured images of this cosmic violence, which people have never witnessed before, according to a new study released Monday by NASA.

'It's like a bully, a black-hole bully punching the nose of a passing galaxy,' said astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, who wasn't involved in the research."

There goes the neighborhood.

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