{"id":167,"date":"2008-02-04T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/02\/death-star-galaxy-has-violent-energy-jet.html"},"modified":"2011-06-19T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T00:08:50","slug":"death-star-galaxy-has-violent-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/02\/death-star-galaxy-has-violent-energy-167.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Death Star&#8221; Galaxy has Violent Energy Jet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/12\/071217-black-holes.html\">blasting a smaller neighbor<\/a> with a violent energy jet\u2014earning it the moniker the &#8220;Death Star&#8221; galaxy\u2014scientists announced today. <\/p>\n<p>The jet has probably fried the atmospheres of any planets in the way, researchers added. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The unusually close distance between the two galaxies means humans don&#8217;t need to fear a &#8220;Death Star&#8221;-like blast in the Milky Way, the authors of the new study add. <\/p>\n<p>There are many supermassive black holes with active jets pointing toward Earth. But these phenomena, known as &#8220;blazars,&#8221; are churning at much safer distances \u2014millions or even billions of light-years away<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unless there is an invisble one nearby!<br \/>Or one decides to zap us with a bit more than normal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy is blasting a smaller neighbor with a violent energy jet\u2014earning it the moniker the &#8220;Death Star&#8221; galaxy\u2014scientists announced today.<br \/>\nThe jet has probably fried the atmospheres of any planets in the way, researchers added.<br \/>\n&#8230;The unusually close distance between the two galaxies means humans don&#8217;t need to fear a &#8220;Death Star&#8221;-like blast in the Milky Way, the authors of the new study add.<br \/>\nThere are many supermassive black holes with active jets pointing toward Earth. But these phenomena, known as &#8220;blazars,&#8221; are churning at much safer distances \u2014millions or even billions of light-years away<br \/>\nUnless there is an invisble one nearby!Or one decides to zap us with a bit more than normal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-space-nasties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->