NASA | Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot of a Black Hole's Jet
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Uploaded by NASAexplorer on May 20, 2011
Centaurus A is a giant elliptical active galaxy 12 million light years away. Radio and X-ray images reveal features associated with jets emanating from near the galaxy's central supermassive black hole, which has a mass of 55 million suns. Now, the TANAMI project has provided the best-ever view of these jets. In the radio image of the galaxy's core, the black hole is invisible but the jets show in great detail. Features as small as 15 light-days across can be resolved. The powerful jets feed vast lobes of radio-emitting gas that reach far beyond the visible galaxy.
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Thank you for this excellent research. NASA makes a good job since the budget cuts are painful.
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some great inforamtion here thanks
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great video thanks
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love the video man
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some sweet info here
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is our galaxy in danger to a near black hole? whats the nearest black hole to our galaxy?
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Oh yeah... The universe is fine tuned for life... Oh yes the universe is soooooo accommodating to life. OH YEAH?! BLOW ME.
You fucking leave earth and tell me how the universe is "fine tuned" for life. Fuck. I never could get how anyone one can buy the anthropic principle even in light of their "dark energy" calculated to 42 decimal places. I got yer dark energy... Bend over bitch!
Fine tune deez nutz.
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@ibr248 Maybe we should start funding a space military? That way we can start killing else where!
MrNatums 9 months ago 14
So in that galaxy could been hundreds of alien races? And then boom...
MumblesGray 9 months ago 8