Blazar (IMAGE)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Blazar

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Illustration of a blazar, a powerful object that produces beams of gamma rays when material spirals into a massive black hole. Blazars are the most common extraterrestrial sources of high-energy gamma rays detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

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M. Weiss/CfA

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