Centaurus A
Jan. 29th, 2009 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselking
... that's a galaxy.
A pretty damn big one. Or, rather, it's TWO galaxies, colliding.
See those things coming out the top and the bottom? The things that are as big as the rest of the galaxy? Those are jets of matter from the accretion disk of the black hole in the center. In the part where they're blue, near the source, they're moving at about half the speed of light because that's just how much energy the black hole is throwing off.
Holy CRAP.