Friday, December 7, 2012

APOD 2.5

The jets in this galaxy are most likely caused by  a super massive black hole, although there is no way to know for sure. This galaxy is simply massive, about 1000 times the size of ours.  The above image is the result of combing a radio telescope image with a visual telescope image. To the visual telescope, a normal galaxy is visible, but when viewed with the radio one, the plasma jets are visible.

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