Artist’s illustration of galaxy with jets from a supermassive black hole
This artist’s impression illustrates how high-speed jets from supermassive black holes would look. These outflows of plasma are the result of the extraction of energy from a supermassive black hole’s rotation as it consumes the disc of swirling material that surrounds it. These jets have very strong emissions at radio wavelengths.
Credit:ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada (ESO)
About the Image
Id: | heic1511a |
Type: | Artwork |
Release date: | 28 May 2015, 15:00 |
Related releases: | heic1511 |
Size: | 5000 x 3125 px |
About the Object
Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN Early Universe : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole |
Category: | Galaxies |
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