The outbursts of Fornax
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 08:28
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- The galaxy Fornax A, at a distance of about 74 million light-years, is one of the nearest and brightest galaxies with giant radio lobes. These huge radio lobes -- they span a million light-years -- are immense reservoirs of hot gas glowing brightly at radio wavelengths. They are thought to have been generated by oppositely-pointed jets of particles streaming out from the galaxy's supermassive black hole.