Blazars -New Clues to the Most Violently Energetic Objects in the Universe


	Blazars -New Clues to the Most Violently Energetic Objects in the Universe

tabsey

7-5-2009 8:46 AM

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Understanding these universe-grade events is a great step forward in astrophysics - for one thing, The BL Lacertae blazar is a particle accelerator that makes the LHC look like an asthmatic child throwing pebbles.

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stared down the barrel of one of the most violently energetic objects
in the universe - and they didn't blink.  Instead, they've figured out
the physics behind one of the most impressive astrophysical events in
existence</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/blazars-clues-to-the-most-violently-energetic-objects-in-the-universe-discovered.html">BL Lacertae is a blazar, a supermassive galactic-core black hole
emitting vast and variable beams of energy</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/blazars-clues-to-the-most-violently-energetic-objects-in-the-universe-discovered.html">The English language simply lacks the
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The most famous property of black holes is the event horizon, the
"point of no return" beyond which you cannot escape.  But even before
this final barrier you're still close to a gigantic gravitational well
built out of most of an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) - if not a point
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