 NGC 4696 is an elliptical galaxy in the Centaurus cluster. In fact, it is the brightest galaxy in the cluster. This composite image was taken in a study of the galaxy central black hole. It shows a vast cloud of hot gas in red, surrounding high energy bubbles 10,000 light years across in blue. The green dots in the image show infrared radiation from star clusters on the outer edges of the galaxy. New observations from Hubble have revealed the intricate structure of the galaxy in greater detail than ever before. Astronomers have found that each of the dusty filaments has a width of about 200 light years. These filaments knit together and spiral inwards toward the center's supermassive black hole that's flooding the galaxy's inner region with energy, heating the gas, and creating streams of heated material. It appears that these hot streams of gas bubble outwards, dragging the filamentary material with them as they go. The galaxy's magnetic field is also swept out with this bubbling motion, constraining and sculpting the material within the filaments.