Chandra Reveals Pileup on Cosmic Speedway

Chandra_141_1024

chandra_141 December 11th, 2002

Credit: NASA/CXC/U.Amsterdam/S.Migliari et al.

The lobes of hot gas observed on either side of the black hole (shown in the illustration, lower right) are due to the pileup of blobs of hot gas ejected at a quarter of the speed of light from the vicinity of the black hole. Material is ejected from this disk in narrow jets that slowly wobble or precess around a circle (represented by blue circular arrow), from the sketched location of the jet at one extreme to the dotted white line at another. As the material slows down, it gets rear-ended by other blobs. This high-speed collision produces the lobes of hot gas.

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Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0214/

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Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Collage
Object Name
SS 433

Distance Details Distance

Universescale1
16,000 light years

Position Details Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 19h 11m 49.6s
DEC = 4° 58’ 57.9”
Constellation
Aquila

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Pseudocolor Chandra (ACIS) X-ray (X-ray) 826.7 pm
Spectrum_xray1
Pseudocolor
Chandra_141_1280
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ID
141
Subject Category
Subject Name
SS 433
Credits
NASA/CXC/U.Amsterdam/S.Migliari et al.
Release Date
2002-12-11
Lightyears
16,000
Redshift
16,000
Reference Url
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0214/
Type
Collage
Image Quality
Good
Distance Notes
Facility
Chandra
Instrument
ACIS
Color Assignment
Pseudocolor
Band
X-ray
Bandpass
X-ray
Central Wavelength
0.8267
Start Time
2000-06-27T03:34:56
Integration Time
9790
Dataset ID
659
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
287.9564903, 4.9827544
Reference Dimension
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Position
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
Chandra X-ray Observatory
URL
http://chandra.harvard.edu
Name
Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
Email
cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
Telephone
617.496.7941
Address
60 Garden St.
City
Cambridge
State/Province
MA
Postal Code
02138
Country
USA
Rights
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
Publisher
Chandra X-Ray Center
Publisher ID
chandra
Resource ID
0214_xray_comp.tif
Resource URL
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0214/0214_xray_comp.tif
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Metadata Date
2012-08-22T13:19:10-04:00
Metadata Version
1.2
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Universescalefull
16,000 light years

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