And brother is this a big one...

Super-Massive Black Hole Discovered



The Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and the National Radio Astronomical Observatory teamed up to produce this composite image of galaxy cluster MS0735.6+7421, located about 2.5 billion light-years from Earth. The cluster contains dozens of galaxies held together by gravity. A truly supermassive black hole lurks at the heart of this cluster, containing more than a billion solar masses. The red areas are twin jets of material streaming away from the black hole.





Galaxy cluster MS0735.6+7421. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, STScI, and B. McNamara
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November 2nd, 2006



Wow, well I thought we could all use a little scientific information to round out our knowledge. It is just beyond me to understand how the Hubble telescope can find all these things. Can you just imagine how BIG this thing is? Think about how small we are in comparison.