#centaurus a

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Centaurus A

[spacewonder19]

Giant Elliptical Galaxy Centaurus A ©

[livingforstars]

The Center of Centaurus A - May 22nd, 1998.

"A fantastic jumble of young blue star clusters, gigantic glowing gas clouds, and imposing dark dust lanes surrounds the central region of the active galaxy Centaurus A. This mosaic of Hubble Space Telescope images taken in blue, green, and red light had been processed to present a natural colour picture of this cosmic maelstrom. Infrared images from Hubble also showed that hidden at the center of this activity are what seem to be disks of matter spiraling into a black hole with a billion times the mass of the Sun! Centaurus A itself is the result of a collision of two galaxies and the left over debris is steadily being consumed by the black hole. Astronomers believe that such black hole "central engines" generate the radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray energy radiated by Centaurus A and other active galaxies. But for an active galaxy Centaurus A is close, a mere 10 million light-years away, and is a relatively convenient laboratory for exploring these powerful sources of energy."

[quiltofstars]

The "burning heart" of Centaurus A, NGC 5128 // Wolfgang Promper

[cosmonautroger]

Centaurus A

[shycroissanti]

I decided to make a remake, a doodle, idk xD

I just wanted to draw the hypothetical future where Irina becomes the commander of the Sunlight Force >:D✨️✨️

[Reblogs are very very appreciated(*´▽｀*)💖💖]

[netmassimo]

An article published in the journal 'The Astrophysical Journal' reports the results of X-ray observations of the jets emitted by the superma

An article published in the journal "The Astrophysical Journal" reports the results of X-ray observations of the jets emitted by the supermassive black hole at the center of the Centaurus A galaxy. A team of researchers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to find a V-shaped structure that indicates that one of the jets hit something whose nature is uncertain. Only Chandra's X-ray observations revealed that unusual structure, cataloged as C4, while many other instruments, especially radio telescopes, had never shown such anomalies.

[zespaceblog]

Centaurus A - NGC 5128

One of the closer and brightest galaxies in our night sky, Centaurus A is just 13 million light years from Earth, and as the image shows, it's shape is quite unique.

Thought to have been the result of a merger between an elliptical galaxy and spiral galaxy and with a very active supermassive black hole around 10 times the size of Sag A*, the galaxy sports peculiar interactions between the jets of matter coming out of the black hole at the centre and the galaxy gas and dust, particularly notable in the upper edges (quite why astronomers are not sure).

Spiral galaxies contain a lot of dust and gas that forms stars, while elliptical galaxies are mostly quenched of such material and so only contain old smaller stars.

Here you can see the dust and gas from that spiral galaxy has settled as a ring around the central region of the newly formed galaxy. In time, the black hole will quench even this, and will return back to an elliptical galaxy similar to that of M87.

It's highly likely that the merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda will result in an elliptical galaxy too, so one day in 5-10 billion years from now, a white dwarf that was once our Sun will be part of one of these galaxies, looked on from afar by another budding astronomer in another galaxy, with no idea of what had passed before it, just as we do now.