Black hole space volcano erupts after 100 million year nap: « Spanning 1 million light-years, J1007+3540’s plasma jets are nearly 10 times wider than the Milky Way. »
Black hole space volcano erupts after 100 million year nap: « Spanning 1 million light-years, J1007+3540’s plasma jets are nearly 10 times wider than the Milky Way. »
> It’s like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm—except this one is big enough to carve out structures stretching nearly a million light-years across space.
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Reference: Shobha Kumari, Sabyasachi Pal, Surajit Paul, Marek Jamrozy, Probing AGN duty cycle and cluster-driven morphology in a giant episodic radio galaxy, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 545, Issue 4, February 2026, staf2038, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf2038
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I never get over the fact that these things we see through our telescopes happened millenniums ago. I read these articles and wish I had so much more of an understanding of space.
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> It’s like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm—except this one is big enough to carve out structures stretching nearly a million light-years across space.
Reference: Shobha Kumari, Sabyasachi Pal, Surajit Paul, Marek Jamrozy, Probing AGN duty cycle and cluster-driven morphology in a giant episodic radio galaxy, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 545, Issue 4, February 2026, staf2038, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf2038
Dibs on this band name.
I never get over the fact that these things we see through our telescopes happened millenniums ago. I read these articles and wish I had so much more of an understanding of space.