X-ray Image of Galaxy Cluster MS 0735
This image of galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421 was taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory in November 2003. Diffuse, hot gas with a temperature of nearly 50 million degrees permeates the space between the galaxies in the cluster. The gas emits X-rays, which are seen as blue in this image. Enormous holes or cavities in the gas, each roughly 640,000 light-years in diameter - nearly seven times the diameter of the Milky Way are seen in the image. The cavities were created by jets of charged particles ejected at nearly light speed from a supermassive black hole weighing nearly a billion times the mass of our Sun, which lurks in the nucleus of the bright central galaxy.
Credit:NASA/CXC, B. McNamara (University of Waterloo and Ohio University)
About the Image
About the Object
Name: | MS 0735.6+742 |
Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster |
Distance: | z=0.216 (redshift) |
Constellation: | Camelopardalis |
Category: | Galaxies |
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Coordinates
Position (RA): | 7 41 42.36 |
Position (Dec): | 74° 14' 53.18" |
Field of view: | 4.54 x 4.55 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 0.1° left of vertical |
Colours & filters
Band | Telescope |
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X-ray |
Chandra
ACIS |