4C+29.30: Black hole powered jets plow into galaxy

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 15:01 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org) —This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. The image contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), optical light obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (gold) and radio waves from the NSF's Very Large Array (pink).

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