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Monster Galaxy Shows Us Another Side of Itself

This looks like a picture of the powerful, planet-destroying laser beam from Star Wars or something else straight out of a sci-fi film, and it almost could be! What we're looking at is the centre of one of the most active galaxies in the Universe. Galaxy centres like this spew incredible amounts of energy – they are brighter than about 100 normal galaxies combined! And this is the first ever 3-D view of one of these monster galaxies!

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Shinshu University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

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