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An international team (including NASA-funded researchers) has produced the most detailed image ever of particle jets erupting from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy.
Credit: ESO/WFI (visible); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (microwave); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray) - Click to enlarge
Using radio telescopes located throughout the Southern Hemisphere, this composite of visible, microwave (orange) and X-ray (blue) data reveals the jets and radio-emitting lobes emanating from Centaurus A’s central black hole, which weighs 55 million times as much as our Sun.
Also known as NGC 5128, Cen A is located about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus and is one of the first celestial radio sources identified with a galaxy.
Source: NASA (with explanation video)
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