A Strangely Cool Supermassive Black Hole!

Space
In this week’s news we discover that Tatooine has got nothing on HD 131399Ab’s wide orbit, and there’s a some really cool jets coming out of a supermassive black hole.

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Sources:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/exoplanet-found-in-triple-star-system-0707201623/
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1624/
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/07/06/science.aaf9671
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-alma-swirling-cool-jet-reveals.html
http://www.space.com/33365-black-hole-jet-is-super-cool.html
http://www.space.com/26765-supermassive-black-holes-rapid-growth.html
http://www.astro.yale.edu/coppi/pubs/bhgrowth4.pdf
http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2016/06/aa27664-15/aa27664-15.html

Image Sources:
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_planet_in_the_HD_131399_system.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_View_of_the_VLTI_with_Tunnels_Superimposed.jpg


https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ALMA_Antennas_on_Chajnantor.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Supermassiveblackhole_nasajpl.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_illustration_of_galaxy_with_jets_from_a_supermassive_black_hole.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gyroscope_precession.gif

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