Highest Electricity measured in Universe

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Scientists have discovered the largest electrical current ever.
It's like space
lightning
.
According to
PopSci
, scientists at the University of Toronto have discovered the strongest
current to date in space about 2 billion light years from Earth. The insane current was found
near galaxy 3C303, the core of which is a "huge cosmic jet."
Measuring at 10^18 amps, the current is equal to about 1 trillion lightning bolts.

A black-hole jet two billion light years away is carrying the highest electric current ever seen:
1018 amps, equivalent to a trillion bolts of lightning. Philipp Kronberg of the University of
Toronto in Canada and colleagues measured the alignment of radio waves around Galaxy
3C303, which has a giant jet of matter shooting from its core. A sudden change in the waves'
alignment coinciding with the jet was "an unambiguous signature of a current," says
Kronberg.
The team believes that the magnetic fields from a colossal black hole at the galaxy's core are
generating the current and driving it through interstellar gases out to a distance of about
150,000 light years.

Additional information:
http://www.kuleuven.be/english/news/2011/KUL_measures_electric_currents_around_black_hol
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