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A supermassive black hole at the heart of galaxy 3C321 is bombarding it’s neighbor, a mere 20,000 light years away (about the distance for us to the center of our own galaxy), with massive amounts of radiation that would destroy the atmospheres of any planets unlucky enough to be caught in it’s wake. The galaxy is 1.4 Billion light years away, so we are watching this galaxy’s ancient past. I wonder what’s going on there at this moment? I can’t help but wonder if we’re watching the extinction of one, or even many, ancient civilizations? Barring the Stargate TV series being a documentary instead of science fiction, it seems it would be extremely hard for even vastly advanced civilizations to escape what seems a certain death. Are there beings in that galaxy right now unaware of this cosmic catastrophe that killed off their ancestors? Are we watching merely an interesting cosmic phenomenon, or a snuffing out of billions, or even trillions, of lives? The mind boggles ….