{"id":105439,"date":"2020-04-15T12:12:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T19:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/behold-the-quasar-tsunami-which-can-kill-an-entire-galaxy"},"modified":"2020-04-15T12:12:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T19:12:46","slug":"behold-the-quasar-tsunami-which-can-kill-an-entire-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/behold-the-quasar-tsunami-which-can-kill-an-entire-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Behold the \u201cQuasar Tsunami,\u201d Which Can Kill an Entire Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/behold-the-quasar-tsunami-which-can-kill-an-entire-galaxy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o possible higgs field containment device could stop the rupture and other ways to destroy the root of the problem too.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New data from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope details what may be the most powerful phenomena in the universe: the \u201cquasar tsunami,\u201d a cosmic storm of such terrifying proportions that it can tear apart an entire galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo other phenomena carries more mechanical energy,\u201d said principal investigator Nahum Arav of Virginia Tech in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2020\/quasar-tsunamis-rip-across-galaxies\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cThe winds are pushing hundreds of solar masses of material each year. The amount of mechanical energy that these outflows carry is up to several hundreds of times higher than the luminosity of the entire Milky Way galaxy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Black Hole Death<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Arav and colleagues described the devastating phenomena in a <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/journal\/0067-0049\/page\/Focus_on_HSTCOS_Observations\">series of six papers<\/a> published in <em>The Astrophysical Journal Supplements<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o possible higgs field containment device could stop the rupture and other ways to destroy the root of the problem too. New data from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope details what may be the most powerful phenomena in the universe: the \u201cquasar tsunami,\u201d a cosmic storm of such terrifying proportions that it can tear apart an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}