This image of Centaurus A shows a spectacular new view of a
supermassive black hole's power. Jets and lobes powered by the
central black hole in this nearby galaxy are shown by
submillimeter data (colored orange) from the Atacama Pathfinder
Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile and X-ray data (colored
blue) from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Visible light data
from the Wide Field Imager on the Max-Planck/ESO 2.2 m
telescope, also located in Chile, shows the dust lane in the
galaxy and background stars. The X-ray jet in the upper left
extends for about 13,000 light years away from the black hole.
The APEX data shows that material in the jet is travelling at
about half the speed of light. Download the desktop: http://www.
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