Active Galaxy NGC 4438
esahubble_opo0021c June 5th, 2000
Credit: NASA/ESA, Jeffrey Kenney (Yale University), Elizabeth Yale (Yale University)
A monstrous black hole's rude table manners include blowing huge bubbles of hot gas into space. At least, that's the gustatory practice followed by the supermassive black hole residing in the hub of the nearby galaxy NGC 4438. Known as a peculiar galaxy because of its unusual shape, NGC 4438 is in the Virgo Cluster, 50 million light-years from Earth.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0021c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo0021c
- Subject Category
- C.5.4.6
- Subject Name
- IRAS 12252+1317, NGC 4438
- Credits
- NASA/ESA, Jeffrey Kenney (Yale University), Elizabeth Yale (Yale University)
- Release Date
- 2000-06-05T16:30:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0021c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, NII, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 658, 450
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 186.932191084, 12.9969292018
- Reference Dimension
- 1269.0, 747.0
- Reference Pixel
- 634.5, 373.5
- Scale
- -2.7632495959e-05, 2.7632495959e-05
- Rotation
- 80.620000000000061
- 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
- opo0021c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0021c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:16:20+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
