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TIL that powerful jets of high-energy particles created by supermassive black holes must be pointed at Earth to be called a Blazar

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TIL that powerful jets of high-energy particles created by supermassive black holes must be pointed at Earth to be called a Blazar

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Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 6 months ago

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NASA’s IXPE Fires Up Astronomers With New Blazar Findings - NASA

An international team of astrophysicists, using new data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), published findings about the blazar called Markarian 421 – which offered some surprising results.

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Where does it need to be pointed to be called a ‘Tie and Blazar”?
- ValenThyme@reddthat.com
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  aimed at Bedford, NY you can see the Chevy Blazar

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