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Awesome Black Hole Death Ray
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Graham Massey
PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:54 pm Reply with quote

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Bully black hole death ray

Dec 18


Experts say a death star galaxy is emitting a powerful jet of particles and radiation the could obliterate anything in its path.

Astronomers believe the most likely victim of the death ray is another galaxy but they say the action is happening ten trillion kilometres from Earth so our own planet is almost certainly safe.

Paul Chapman reports.

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Source: Reuters
 
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David Hale
PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:15 pm Reply with quote

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We posted it here also. Love the first line in the story
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When NASA labels something a “Death Star,” you can pretty much rest assured that it will be cool
No doubt, eh?

EDIT-nvm the edit...
 
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Graham Massey
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Yeah there's just so much about nature that we know so little about. It's fascinating stuff omg Just those distances and speeds they talk about are mind boggling - "ten trillion kilometres from Earth...1.4 billion light years away"
 
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Algis Koscus
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Some nice pics of this from NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html
 
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