Black-Holes Exhale Galaxy Sized Gas Cloud

A giant cloud of superheated gas 6 million light years wide might be formed by the collective sigh of several supermassive black holes, scientists say.

The plasma cloud might be the source of mysterious cosmic rays that permeate our universe.

“One of the most exciting aspects of the discovery is the new questions it poses,” said study leader Philipp Kronberg of Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico.
“For example, what kind of mechanism could create a cloud of such enormous dimensions that does not coincide with any single galaxy or galaxy cluster? Is that same mechanism connected to the mysterious source of ultra high energy cosmic rays that come from beyond our galaxy?”

"One reasonable interpretation is that the cloud represents the aggregate release of magnetic and cosmic ray energy from this grouping of galaxies, which is unusually concentrated," Kronberg told SPACE.com.
The cloud might be evidence that AGNs convert and transfer their enormous gravitational prowess, by a yet-unknown process, into magnetic fields and cosmic rays that spread across the universe.


SOURCE:
Space.com

This is truly facsinating, to imagine that black-holes produced a plasma
cloud larger than our own galaxy.

I am very curious about the proceses involved in this phenomenon,
as it is truly amazing that such a thing would hapen.


Comments, Opinions?

None dare call it flatulence? Sounds like a good book title...

Good find, interesting stuff. We're making new discoveries all the time that simply amaze even the scifi writers.

sorry i didnt read it all, i got to go in a min, at college, but after enought iem could it end up harbouring life ? so is that a possiblity for were ours started.

Originally posted by Vixion
sorry i didnt read it all, i got to go in a min, at college, but after enought iem could it end up harbouring life ? so is that a possiblity for were ours started.

It most likely does not harbour any sort of life, though there is a slim
chance that over time some basic microbial life could evolve.

As to life on Earth originating from there, no that's not possible,
this phenomenon is 6,000,000 light-years away, apart from the sheer
amount of time that it would take for anything harbouring life to make it
from there to here (which would take billions of years for a space rock),
this only happened 6million years ago, and life had already existed for
along time on Earth back than.

Are Black holes really galactic sphincters!! (sorry).

Where does matter that enters black holes go........?

Are Black holes in other Universes emitting their waste products into our Universe and vice versa.

Interesting find iori_komei.