Astronomers study two million light year 'extragalactic afterburner'
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 09:02
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org)—Blasting over two million lights years from the centre of a distant galaxy is a supersonic jet of material that looks strikingly similar to the afterburner flow of a fighter jet, except in this case the jet engine is a supermassive black hole and the jet material is moving at nearly the speed of light.