Centaurus A

Shooting out from the very core of Centaurus A is a jet of energy ploughing through the galaxy at almost the speed of light. The jet originates from, and is powered by, a giant black hole with the mass of a billion Suns. Scattered throughout the galaxy we also see dozens of X-ray blobs. This is X-ray light from ultra-hot gas that is falling into Centaurus A's many stellar mass black holes.

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