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Black hole blows big bubble. ESO clicky

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This object, also known as a microquasar, blows a huge bubble of hot gas, 1000 light-years across, twice as large and tens of times more powerful than other known microquasars


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That's freakin' awesome.

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JJW009 wrote:
That's freakin' awesome.

I know! Frakin' mental!

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If you do the scaling, it's like a PP3 battery getting a strop and blowing a plasma bubble bigger than Jupiter :lol:

This is why the iPhone is not powered by a small black hole.

Yet.

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JJW009 wrote:
If you do the scaling, it's like a PP3 battery getting a strop and blowing a plasma bubble bigger than Jupiter :lol:

This is why the iPhone is not powered by a small black hole.

Yet.

:twisted:

It is a planned upgrade. ;)

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1000 light years across. :shock:
The image isn't to scale then. :lol:

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If it was to scale in the solar system it said that the sun would be replaced by an object the size of a football and blow a jet out to pluto. That is pretty powerful.

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