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Radio telescopes capture best-ever snapshot of black hole jets (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team, including NASA-funded researchers, using radio telescopes located throughout the Southern Hemisphere has produced the most detailed image of particle jets erupting from ...

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created May 21, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

X-Ray Jets

(PhysOrg.com) -- The supermassive black holes that lie at the centers of galaxies can spawn tremendous bipolar jets of atomic particles.

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created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Black Hole Gets Jerked Around -- Twice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found evidence that a giant black hole has been jerked around twice, causing its spin axis to point in a different direction from before. This discovery, made with new data ...

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created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Mystery object in Starburst Galaxy M82 possible micro-quasar

(PhysOrg.com) -- Radio astronomers at the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory have discovered a strange new object in a nearby galaxy. The object, which appeared very suddenly in radio wavelengths ...

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created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

X-Ray Jets from Galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some dramatic galaxies eject gigantic, collimated jets of ionized gas millions of light-years long, powered by the massive black holes at their centers. The ionized jets are detected at radio ...

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created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Astronomers reveal a 'blue whale of space'

CSIRO astronomers have revealed the hidden face of an enormous galaxy called Centaurus A, which emits a radio glow covering an area 200 times bigger than the full Moon.

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created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 8

Erratic black holes regulate their growth (w/Videos)

(PhysOrg.com) -- New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have made a major advance in explaining how a special class of black holes may shut off the high-speed jets they produce. These results suggest ...

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created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 5