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[–] blahsay@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Well we found it....most impressive fart in the universe.

Seriously though that's awesome. Real life death star right there

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quite a bigger bang than an m80.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They must be named on a logarithmic scale.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 0 points 1 year ago

log(log(log(log(log(log))))) scale.

[–] Sleevezipper@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's awesome! Do your have more info on this?

[–] lefty7283@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s basically a giant particle beam made by the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy.

https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2000/20/968-Image.html

[–] Sleevezipper@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Very interesting. Thank you!