Astronomy Picture of the Day - Jets from Unusual Galaxy Centaurus A

APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 17 Jan, 2021 | Image Credit: ESO/WFI (visible); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A. Weiss et al. (microwave); NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft e

[MtnClimber]

Explanation: The jets emanating from Centaurus A are over a million light years long. These jets of streaming plasma, expelled by a giant black hole in the center of this spiral galaxy, light up this composite image of Cen A. Exactly how the central black hole expels infalling matter remains unknown. After clearing the galaxy, however, the jets inflate large radio bubbles that likely glow for millions of years. If energized by a passing gas cloud, the radio bubbles can even light up again after billions of years. X-ray light is depicted in the featured composite image in blue, while microwave light is colored orange. The base of the jet in radio light shows details of the innermost light year of the central jet.

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[Repeal The 17th]

Dog at “after billions”.

[metmom]

Very nice.

Thanks.

[MtnClimber]

Wow, I did not find the dog.

[Slyfox]

I smell BBQ.

[ryderann]

Contrails from our friends out in space?

[MtnClimber]

I think there is a Mexican Restaurant in that galaxy!

[gundog]

[Larry Lucido]

It's a giant sea, er, spacehorse.

[Pez149]

You got to be joking.
First they theorize that nothing can escape a Black Hole not even light and now they’re saying that plasma is emanating from a Black Hole.

The Truth is they have No Clue.
And since no one has ever seen a Black Hole they may need to realize that they don’t even exist.

[Slyfox]

It’s possible there are more than one.

[Slyfox]

[libertylover]

Now THAT’S a fart!!!

[Bernard]

The truth will be told when Anthony Fauci issues a statement. Or 3. Chances are #2 will not be the same as #1, and #3 will be completely different from the first 2.

Science!

[Deaf Smith]

Black Hole excretions.

[beethovenfan]

Black holes matter!

[Candor7]

We may have an indication how interplanetary plasma is generated. The indicated plasma streams come from a black hole. We can imagine the force with which a planet could be scoured if its orbit crossed such a stream or even if such a stream was encountered by our solar system entire.

I wonder what Electric Universe theorists would make of it.

[Fred Nerks]

The indicated plasma streams come from a black hole...

Of course it does, that's where all the matter in a galaxy ends up, to be spat out at the other end as pure energy, (plasma) The universe recycles.