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“ The astronomers pointed the telescope at Markarian 501, a galaxy half a billion light-years away that contains a “blazar” — a massive black hole that gives off bursts of gamma rays. Some of the material falling toward the black hole gets squeezed into jets that burst from the poles of the object at close to the speed of light. These jets fire off flares of gamma rays a few minutes long.
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