Star Wars like 'Death Star' black holes attacking THIS in space

Not only are some types of black holes known to devour stars terrifying, but scientists have now found that some of them can rotate and fire beams at other objects in space, drawing analogies to the Death Star space station from "Star Wars."

In a paper published in the "Astrophysical Journal," scientists described these intergalactic ray weapons in detail and even made a comparison between the discovery and the George Lucas film series, according to New York Post.

“These Death Star black holes are swiveling around and pointing at new targets, like the fictional space station in Star Wars,” said study leader Francesco Ubertosi of the University of Bologna in a press release.

The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a network of ten radio telescopes situated in New Mexico, and Nasa's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory were used by the scientist and his colleagues to study 16 supermassive black holes that were erupting.

These state-of-the-art tools allowed scientists to determine that the jets from black holes may rotate up to 90 degrees.

“We found that about a third of the beams are now pointing in completely different directions than before,” declared Ubertosi of the phenomenon, whose cause is yet unclear.