'Black Hole Indigestion' Captured by Giant Radio Telescope (Photos)

[haikuman]

http://news.yahoo.com/black-hole-indiges...59470.html

By by Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer
2 hours ago

A powerful radio telescope in Chile has peered deeply into the universe and captured an incredible sight: an ancient black hole chowing down on a massive snack.

New photos released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) show a distant active galaxy called PKS 1830-211 eating huge amounts of matter, boosting its super-energetic jets of material to extremely high levels. You can watch a video fly-through of the two new black hole discoveries provided by ESO.

The light coming from the distant cosmic object was actually emitted when the universe was 20 percent as old as it is now, ESO officials said. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the world's largest ground-based telescope array, made the new observations. [Meet ALMA: Amazing Photos from Giant Radio Telescope]

"The ALMA observation of this case of black hole indigestion has been completely serendipitous," Sebastien Muller, co-author of a study about PKS 1830-211, said in a statement.

http://www.space.com/23216-black-hole-in...hotos.html

[OWC Jamie]

That is AWESOME Thank you for posting!

[kap]

And here we are worried about a couple of sink holes ;-)

[tuqqer]

**burp**

[mrlynn]

Video linked in article wouldn't play for more than a few seconds without switching to an ad for some kind of download. . . :dunno:

/Mr Lynn