Monday, December 17, 2007

Current Event Blog


Today astronomers have seen a massive black hole shooting its neighbor with deadly beams of energy. NASA calls it the “Death Star Galaxy”. It could obliterate the atmosphere off of a planet but also trigger the birth of a star. Luckily for us, the violence cannot affect us. The deadly galaxy is the largest of two systems called the 3C321 is aiming high energy jet from the center, at a smaller galaxy about 20,000 light years away. Jets of supermassive black holes produce radiation in forms of X-ray and gamma rays traveling close to the speed of light ultimately will do the most damage. A bright spot of a NASA composite reveals that the beam is on the edge of the smaller galaxy. Also it will help stars and solar systems to form. It could also mean new life in the distant galaxy.

http://www.livescience.com/space/scienceastronomy/071217-death-star-galaxy.html

I believe that this is an amazing discovery in science and think that the facts are accurate. The pictures taken by NASA say that the jets will be deadly and can help. But I don't know how a deadly radiation could help in making stars and solar systems. But it is incredible that a black hole can shoot out jets reaching into another galaxy. It is another first seen in science

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