Death Star Galaxy Is Intergalactic "Bully"

Scientists Observe Galaxy Shooting Radiation Particles Into Smaller, Nearby Orbiting Galaxy

(AP)  The latest act of senseless violence caught on tape is cosmic in scope: A black hole in a "death star galaxy" blasting a neighboring galaxy with a deadly jet of radiation and energy.

A fleet of space and ground telescopes have captured images of this cosmic violence, which people have never witnessed before, according to a new study released Monday by NASA.

"It's like a bully, a black-hole bully punching the nose of a passing galaxy," said astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, who wasn't involved in the research.

But ultimately, this could be a deadly punch.

The telescope images show the bully galaxy shooting a stream of deadly radiation particles into the lower section of the other galaxy, which is about one-tenth its size. Both are about 8.2 billion trillion miles from here, orbiting around each other.

The larger galaxy has a multi-digit name but is called the "death star galaxy" by one of the researchers who discovered the galactic bullying, Daniel Evans of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Tens of millions of stars, including those with orbiting planets, are likely in the path of the deadly jet, said study co-author Martin Hardcastle of the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

If Earth were in the way - and it's not - the high-energy particles and radiation of the jet would in a matter of months strip away the planet's protective ozone layer and compress the protective magnetosphere, said Evans. That would then allow the sun and the jet itself to bombard the planet with high-energy particles.

And what would that do life on the planet?

"Decompose it," Tyson said.

"Sterilize it," Evans piped in.

The jet attack is relatively new, in deep space time. Hardcastle estimates it's no more than 1 million years old and can stretch on for another 10 to 100 million years.

"A truly extraordinary act of violence," Evans said. "The jet violently slams into that lower half of the neighboring galaxy after which the jet dramatically twists and bends."

The good news is that eventually an area of hot gas that gets hit and compressed by this mysterious jet - astronomers are still baffled by what's in it and how it works - over millions and billions of years can form stars, Tyson said.

NASA, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in United States and the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom used ground optical and radio telescopes, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope to get an image of the violence on various wavelengths, including invisible ones. The results will be published in The Astrophysical Journal next year.

The two galaxies are only 24,000 light-years apart and are in a slow merging process. The jet has already traveled 1 million light-years. A light-year is about 5.88 trillion miles.

Tyson said there are two main lessons to be learned from what the telescopes have found:

"This is a reminder that you are not alone in the universe. You are not isolated. You are not an island."

And "avoid black holes when you can."

[actornaught]

Posted by berniepeders at 12:19 PM : Dec 20, 2007

But then you use it to bother people with your lame attitude, so it serves your need to pretend your opinion is important.

You''re welcome.

[berniepeders]

Talk about making something out of nothing. So what, if an astronomical body "8.2 billion trillion miles from here" is shooting bombarding another with a "deadly jet of radiation and energy"? Does it REALLY matter. And it happened millions of years ago! Is this REALLY news? Bunch of weirdos in white lab coats walking around with woodies because of something they saw in their telescope.

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[scottyusa]

thgdriver
The writer was referring to the "latest" as "cosmic in scope". What he means by that is that in the cosmos 1 million years is less then a split second compared to what we can even comprehend. Cosmos time can go back hundreds of billion of years so what is a million? It might as well have just happened.

[thgdriver]

Darth Vader lives!!!

[sbb2211]

"(AP) The latest act of senseless violence caught on tape is cosmic in scope:"

What? Huh? Where did . . . I don''t . . . How can this . . .

Senseless violence caught on tape?

Everything is violence or body bags to the A$$ociated Press.

[jowand]

So, does this make God evil?
Posted by rushlimpdrug at 12:46 PM : Dec 19, 2007

No, just proves you''re dumb.

[thgdriver]

Thats not the only mistake this writer made.
At the very beginning of this story the writer talks in present terms and I quote " The latest act of senseless violence caught on tape is cosmic in scope: A black hole in a "death star galaxy" blasting a neighboring galaxy with a deadly jet of radiation and energy".

Its not the "latest" at all, this all took place a very long time ago, we are just seeing it now as the light reaches us.

[thgdriver]

You don''''t understand what it is they are saying,

Posted by brianbwb

I understand perfectly what they are saying, thats my point.
Thanks for the explanation, but what you are saying is that these particles are not actually in the black hole to begin with.

Under the picture above they clearly state---this composite photo provided by NASA shows A powerful jet "from a black hole" is blasting a nearby galaxy in the system known as 3C321.

I blamed the scientists out of fun. Obviously, the person who wrote the story worded it improperly.