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laboratoryequipment: Rare Explosion Created Galaxy’s Youngest Black HoleNew data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The remnant appears to be the product of a rare explosion in which matter is ejected at high speeds along the poles of a rotating star.The remnant, called W49B, is about a thousand years old as seen from Earth and located about 26,000 light-years away.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/02/rare-explosion-created-galaxys-youngest-black-hole

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Rare Explosion Created Galaxy’s Youngest Black Hole

New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The remnant appears to be the product of a rare explosion in which matter is ejected at high speeds along the poles of a rotating star.

The remnant, called W49B, is about a thousand years old as seen from Earth and located about 26,000 light-years away.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/02/rare-explosion-created-galaxys-youngest-black-hole

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