NASA's Fermi Satellite Kicks Off a Blazar Bonanza (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Explore how gamma-ray telescopes in space and on Earth captured an outburst of high-energy light from PKS 1441+25, a black-hole-powered galaxy more than halfway across the universe.

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Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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