PERTH, Australia, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- A supersonic jet blasting from the center of a distant galaxy looks strikingly similar to a jet fighter's afterburner flow, Australian astronomers say.
The "jet engine" in this case is a supermassive black hole and the material is moving at nearly the speed of light as it blasts almost 2 million light years out of the galaxy, researchers with the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research in Perth reported.