Wednesday, 26. March 2003

The give and take of black holes


Scientists have found evidence of high-speed winds blowing away vast amounts of gas from the cores of two quasar galaxies. "The winds we measured imply that as much as a billion suns' worth of material is blown away over the course of a quasar's lifetime," says George Chartas, of the Penn State Astronomy and Astrophysics Department, US, who led the observations.

¬> BBC

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