4C+ Galaxy, Black Hole, Radio
A giant black hole has been jerked around twice, causing its spin axis to point in a different direction from before. If confirmed, this discovery might explain several mysterious-looking objects found throughout the Universe. A new deep observation with Chandra of 4C + was key in making this finding. At the center of 4C + is a supermassive black hole that is actively pulling in large quantities of gas. Gas swirling toward the black hole forms a disk around the black hole, generating strong electromagnetic forces that propel some of the gas away from the disk at high speed, producing radio jets. A radio image of this galaxy shows a bright pair of jets pointing from left to right and a fainter, more distant line of radio emission running approximately from the top to the bottom of the image. This galaxy belongs to a class of "X-shaped" galaxies because of the outline of the radio emission. Release date July 21, 2010.
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