Galaxy Centaurus A: Black Hole Jets Made Visible | ESO APEX & NASA Chandra

Galaxy Centaurus A: Black Hole Jets Made Visible | ESO APEX & NASA Chandra

Color composite image of Centaurus A, revealing the lobes and jets emanating from the active galaxy’s central black hole. This is a composite of images obtained with three instruments, operating at very different wavelengths. The 870-micron submillimeter data, from LABOCA on APEX, are shown in orange. X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in blue. Visible light data from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2 m telescope located at La Silla, Chile, show the stars and the galaxy’s characteristic dust lane in close to "true color".

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimeter); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray)

Release Date: January 28, 2009

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