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Powerful Jets From a Black Hole are Spawning Star Clusters


ve black holes are messy feeders, and when they're gorging on too much material, they can hurl high-energy jets into the surrounding Universe. Astronomers have found one of the most powerful eruptions ever seen, emanating from a black hole 3.8 billion light-years away.

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