Galaxy 3C321, Fully Armed and Operational


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Astronomers have spotted a distant galaxy zapping its smaller neighbor with a deadly, Death Star-like particle beam.

The beam is a jet of particles moving at near light-speed out of a super-massive black hole at the center of the larger galaxy. The beam has smashed into the nearby second galaxy, where it is probably decimating an untold number of planets.

(via discovery news)