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Black Hole's Invisible Jet Beams Pack the Power of 10,000 Suns!

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Astronomers just measured the most powerful jets in the universe shooting out from a black hole called Cygnus X-1—and they're almost as fast as light itself! Using giant radio telescopes connected like one huge planet-sized eye in the sky, scientists watched these invisible beams of energy get pushed around by a nearby star and finally figured out exactly how powerful they really are. Imagine a stream of energy so strong it could power everything on Earth millions of times over!
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ScienceDaily
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