The active galaxy Markarian 1018
esahubble_eso1631a September 16th, 2016
Credit: ESO/CARS survey
The mystery of a rare change in the behaviour of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the distant galaxy Markarian 1018 has been solved by an international team of astronomers using ESOs Very Large Telescope along with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory. The image was taken with the MUSE instrument on ESOs Very Large Telescope. The faint loops of light around the galaxy are a result of its interaction and merger with another galaxy in the recent past. Link: ESO press release
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/eso1631a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1631a
- Subject Category
- C.5.3.2.2
- Subject Name
- Markarian 1018
- Credits
- ESO/CARS survey
- Release Date
- 2016-09-16T13:11:28
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/eso1631a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- None, None, Very Large Telescope (VLT), Very Large Telescope (VLT), Very Large Telescope (VLT), Very Large Telescope (VLT)
- Instrument
- None, None, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE, MUSE
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- -, -, i, r, G, u
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 31.566625, -0.2914444
- Reference Dimension
- 800.0, 800.0
- Reference Pixel
- 400.0, 400.0
- Scale
- -5.50173129487e-05, 5.50173129487e-05
- Rotation
- -89.999999999999929
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- eso1631a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/eso1631a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2016-09-09T15:07:10+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
