A huge jet of high-energy particles shoots out from a supermassive black hole at
A jet (upper left) shoots out the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Centaurus A. Around the galaxy, interstellar gas forms a haze that’s punctuated by X-ray point sources. These probably represent black hole or neutron star raids on neighboring stars.
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