Radio Astronomers Spot Bipolar Outflow from Centaurus A’s Supermassive Black Hole astronomy space science
This MWA image shows Centaurus A at radio wavelengths, revealing vast lobes of plasma that reach far beyond the visible galaxy, which occupies only a small patch at the center of the image. The dots in the background are not stars, but radio galaxies much like Centaurus A, at far greater distances. Image credit: Ben McKinley, ICRAR & Curtin University / Connor Matherne, Louisiana State University.
“It forms a disk around the black hole, and as the matter gets ripped apart going close to the black hole, powerful jets form on either side of the disk, ejecting most of the material back out into space, to distances of probably more than a million light years.” “In this research we’ve been able to combine the radio observations with optical and x-ray data, to help us better understand the physics of these supermassive black holes.”
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