Stuff that goes really, really fast
The Fastest Stuff in the Universe:
Among the speed demons of the universe are Jupiter-sized blobs of hot gas embedded in streams of material ejected from hyperactive galaxies known as blazars. Last week at a meeting here of the American Astronomical Society, scientists announced they had measured blobs in blazar jets screaming through space at 99.9 percent of light-speed.
"This tells us that the physical processes at the cores of these galaxies … are extremely energetic and are capable of propelling matter very close to the absolute cosmic speed limit," said Glenn Piner of Whittier College in Whittier, California.
Comments
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Posted by: charmingbillie | January 19, 2005 08:00 PM
"blobs in blazar jets screaming through space"
...love it
Posted by: TMcG | January 20, 2005 04:44 PM
Don't you wish you could use that line in a story somewhere?
Posted by: debco | January 20, 2005 05:24 PM
Even more, in a poem!
Posted by: TMcG | February 6, 2005 02:00 AM