Image source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/3c321/3c321_2pan_label.jpgThey have some interesting news in NASA’s website. A powerful jet from a super massive black hole seems to blast a nearby galaxy. According to researchers, this jet might destroy the planets on its way, but it might also speed up the formation process of new stars. This objects is known as 3C321 and it includes two galaxies in orbit around each other. There are two huge blak holes in the middle of both galaxies, but there is a jet from the bigger galaxy towards the smaller one.

Jets of black holes include lots of powerful high-energy X- and gamma-rays as well as particles moving with the speed of light. All these together can easily destroy a planet’s ozone layer making life on the planet impossible. What makes this phenomenon interesting, is that in cosmic time scale the phenomenon has just started. It started only one million years ago, which makes this possibility to study black hole’s jets very important and unique.

Read more about this interesting phenomenon in Nasa website.

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