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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Scorpius Black Hole in the Milky Way Erupting!

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Astronomers observed a black hole named H1742-322 near the galactic center, approximately 28,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius, firing off two enormous “missiles” of ionized gas at nearly a quarter the speed of light, producing as much energy in an hour as the sun emits in five years. The team used the Very Large Baseline Array — a set of 10 radio telescopes located over a range of 5,000 miles.

“If your eyes were as sharp as the VLBA, you could see a person on the moon,” said physicist Gregory Sivakoff of the University of Alberta, who presented the findings Jan. 10 at the American Astronomical Society meeting.

Read More: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/01/scorpius-black-hole-in-the-milky-way-erupting.html

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