Jan 032013
 

Neat!

A Radio-Optical View of the Galaxy Hercules A

The elliptical galaxy was photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in visible light. The violet jets are radio images made by the Very Large Array. The galaxy is two billion light years away; the jets stretch more than one and a half million light years. The power source for this is a giant black hole with a mass 2.5 billion times greater than the Sun.

Higher rez at the link.

The universe is, in the strictest sense of the word, fricken’ AWESOME.

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