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Conceptual illustration showing a "blast" driven by a supermassive black hole hidden at the center of a galaxy, with its energy propagating beyond the galaxy and into the surrounding galaxy group environment. The illustration depicts the transport of an enormous amount of energy - equivalent to several billion supernova explosions - into the surrounding space, driving the violent motion of hot gas extending out to distances of approximately 300,000 light-years.
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