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Giant Tunnel Found In Distant Galaxy
Post Chronicle ^ | 1.12.2006

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.


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1 posted on 01/14/2006 10:44:07 AM PST by Hadean
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To: RadioAstronomer

Your thoughts sir.


2 posted on 01/14/2006 10:47:16 AM PST by ASA Vet (Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
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To: Hadean

for later


3 posted on 01/14/2006 10:51:39 AM PST by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: ASA Vet

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!


4 posted on 01/14/2006 10:53:15 AM PST by JRios1968 ("Cogito, ergo FReep": I think, therefore I FReep.)
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To: Hadean

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.


5 posted on 01/14/2006 10:54:33 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Hadean

They've named it Madonna.


6 posted on 01/14/2006 10:54:36 AM PST by Moonman62 (Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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To: Hadean

It's a wormhole. Looks like it leads right to the Lost City of the Ancients. Either that, or Uranus.


7 posted on 01/14/2006 10:58:31 AM PST by toddlintown (Lennon takes six bullets to the chest, Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f'ing bullet?)
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To: JRios1968

Nah. Stinks more like a congressional pork project to me. Now, who's the senator from there?


8 posted on 01/14/2006 11:02:59 AM PST by GSlob
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To: Hadean

Ah Hah! That's how those illegal aliens are getting in, through a tunnel.


9 posted on 01/14/2006 11:05:25 AM PST by RouxStir (Peaceful muslim...The Ultimate Oxymoron!)
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To: Hadean

It's either the pathway to heaven or hell. Go take a look.


10 posted on 01/14/2006 11:06:11 AM PST by mc5cents
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To: Hadean
Apparently it has an atmosphere.


11 posted on 01/14/2006 11:06:31 AM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: RouxStir

The IDF will be bulldozing and destroying this tunnel. Evidently, the Pali's are using it to bring weapons into Gaza.


12 posted on 01/14/2006 11:08:29 AM PST by C210N (Bush SPYED, Terrorists DIED!)
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To: Hadean

Darned Mexicans are digging 'em everywhere.
Sneak illegal aliens and drugs through 'em.


13 posted on 01/14/2006 11:09:57 AM PST by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: mc5cents

I think it's the tunnel that leads to heaven.


14 posted on 01/14/2006 11:10:49 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: Moonman62
They should name it Heinlein. Wasn't one of his novels called Tunnel in the Sky?
15 posted on 01/14/2006 11:10:58 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Hadean

At least we know the Stones havent been there.


16 posted on 01/14/2006 11:11:37 AM PST by conservative barking moonbat (2000 Light years from home)
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To: Verginius Rufus

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.


17 posted on 01/14/2006 11:14:20 AM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: Hadean

Probably full of illegal aliens on their way here.


18 posted on 01/14/2006 11:47:00 AM PST by wildbill
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To: Hadean

Hmmm, all sorts of implications and possibilities...


19 posted on 01/14/2006 11:49:07 AM PST by hershey (``)
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To: Hadean
Giant Tunnel Found In Distant Galaxy

They are still working on the Big Dig?

20 posted on 01/14/2006 11:49:17 AM PST by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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