Posted on 01/14/2006 10:44:05 AM PST by Hadean
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2006 (UPI) -- U.S. astronomers say they have discovered a giant Milky Way-sized tunnel filled with high energy particles in a distant galaxy cluster.
The findings, presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting may provide the missing evolutionary link necessary to understand radio jets resulting from supermassive black holes within giant galaxies, researchers said.
Scientists working with the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington used the Chandra X-ray Observatory to study the multi-million-degree gas in the galaxy cluster Abell 2597, where they discovered an unusual X-ray tunnel large enough to fit the entire Milky Way galaxy inside.
The cluster, located at a distance of roughly 1 billion light-years, contains a tunnel in the hot gas, which measures nearly 110 thousand light-years by 36 thousand light-years in size. The tunnel, which appears to originate near the core of the central giant galaxy in the cluster, may be more than 200 million years old, researchers said.
Your thoughts sir.
for later
Bush, Cheney and Rove conspired with the folks in that galaxy, and the tunnel was built through a no-bid contract by Halliburton. Of course!
Nature has created a tunnel of such vast beauty, perplexity, and astonishment. Mankind built a tunnel in Boston, named it after Ted Williams, and a few years later it leaks like a sieve. There must be a lesson in there somewhere.
They've named it Madonna.
It's a wormhole. Looks like it leads right to the Lost City of the Ancients. Either that, or Uranus.
Nah. Stinks more like a congressional pork project to me. Now, who's the senator from there?
Ah Hah! That's how those illegal aliens are getting in, through a tunnel.
It's either the pathway to heaven or hell. Go take a look.
The IDF will be bulldozing and destroying this tunnel. Evidently, the Pali's are using it to bring weapons into Gaza.
Darned Mexicans are digging 'em everywhere.
Sneak illegal aliens and drugs through 'em.
I think it's the tunnel that leads to heaven.
At least we know the Stones havent been there.
Is this tunnel a natural feature? Just a thought. If there is intelligent life out there, there might be a sign of activity of some kind.
Probably full of illegal aliens on their way here.
Hmmm, all sorts of implications and possibilities...
They are still working on the Big Dig?
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