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Posted on 11/09/2010 5:57:02 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Two huge, unexplained gamma ray emitting bubbles have been discovered at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, US astronomers said Tuesday.
Masked by a fog of gamma rays that appears throughout the sky, the bubbles form a feature spanning 50,000 light-years and could be the remnant of a supersized black hole eruption or the outflows from a burst of star formation, the astronomers said.
The structure spans more than half of the visible sky, from the constellation Virgo to the constellation Grus, and it may be millions of years old, the astronomers said in a paper The Astrophysical Journal has agreed to publish.
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We’d best get the Free Republic server’s into a General Products hull.. just to be safe
Maybe we otta get OURSLEVES into one first!
Wouldn't the term "black hole eruption" be a sort of a contradiction of terms or an oxymoron, like 'safe sex' or 'democratic initiative' or something like that??
Well that’s a very good point.. right.
Anything, as long as we get the hull out of the way in time.
The very term “black hole eruption” brings back some pretty unsavory memories...
You understand the point I was making, yes? I mean, the whole idea of a black hole is that nothing should ever be able to erupt from it or anything like that.....
Somewhere around here... let’s see...
Meet the Indian who took on Stephen Hawking
Rediff.com | August 03, 2004 10:06 IST | Rediff.com
Posted on 08/02/2004 10:16:56 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick
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