esahubble_opo9814g May 14th, 1998
Credit: Jack O. Burns (University of Missouri) & David Clarke (St. Mary's University,Nova Scotia)
The elliptical galaxy Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is well known for its dramatic dusty lanes of dark material and its central supermassive black hole, which ejects material with a relativistic speed from the nucelus of the galaxy. This image shows, that, whereas the main part of the galaxy is invisible, these jets emmit radiation in radio wavelengths. By taking radio observations of the jets separated by a decade, astronomers have determined that the inner parts of the jets are moving at about one half of the speed of light.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9814g/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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