centaurus A
Zap! A Black Hole Scores a Direct Hit With its Jet
Most galaxies are thought to play host to black holes. At the center of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million…
Astronomers Find the Longest Black Hole Jets Ever Seen
Black holes often appear in science fiction movies, largely because elements of their existence are still a mystery. They have…
Hubble saw Multiple Light Echoes Reflecting off Rings of Dust From a Supernova Explosion
Using images from Hubble, an international team of astronomers created a video that shows the evolution of a supernova and…
If you had Radio Telescopes for Eyes, one of the Biggest Things in the sky Would be a jet of Material Blasting out of a Nearby Galaxy
Astronomers have captured a radio galaxy that spans 16 Moon-widths in the sky.
The Event Horizon Telescope Zooms in on Another Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just captured another amazing image, this time of the relativistic jet coming from the center…
Quasars are the Biggest Particle Accelerators in the Universe
We puny humans think we can accelerate particles? Look how proud we are of the Large Hadron Collider. But any…
‘Lopsided’ Ghostly Galactic Halo Has Some Starry Surprises
Centaurus A -- that popular target for astrophotographers in the southern hemisphere -- has a much wider halo than expected,…
An Amazing Deep-Field View of Centaurus A
Sometimes, you just have to say “Wow!” The view you’re looking at above is of Centaurus A (NGC 5128), a…
New Image Shows Beautiful Violence in Centaurus A
[/caption] The mysterious galaxy Centaurus A is a great place to study the extreme processes that occur near super-massive black…
Hubble’s Stunning New View of Centaurus A
[/caption] From a HubbleSite press release: Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the…