Cheese! Cool black hole pics.

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Cheese! Cool black hole pics.

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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060412.html

One of the cooler APOD pics, considering that what you're seeing is the gas jets ejected from the poles of supermassive black holes 300 million light years away... :) For a sense of scale in the pic itself, the two are 25k light years apart, at the cores of merging galaxies.
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