Submitter: | Raffaella Morganti |
Description: | Image of a radio galaxy obtained with the WSRT. The galaxy was selected from the Sloan Digital Survey to investigate the presence of gas in this kind of object. The radio structure that you see in this image is caused by jets of plasma shot into space by the black hole in the nucleus of this galaxy. The gas (that we are looking for) could provide the fuel for this black hole to make such jets. The X-shaped structure could indicate that until recently there were in fact TWO black holes in this galaxy. The image has been made automatically by the WSRT pipeline. |
Copyright: | Astron |
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