Astronomers study 2-million-light-year 'extragalactic afterburner'
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 06:31
in Astronomy & Space
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.