black hole jets
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cktwigg
This looks like some artistic representations of black holes with the jets emitting from the centre
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akapinska
scientist
Hi, well this is very much real 😃 and yes, what you see is two large radio lobes created by radio jets that are ejected from the central galaxy (infrared). As for hashtags, call this source #doublelobe.
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JeanTate
in response to cktwigg's comment.
Amazing isn't it? Not least because it's not an artistic representation, and because they are jets being shot out from a region of space likely no bigger than our solar system, at the center of which is a super-massive black hole.
Back to ARG0000n0b: it's a #doublelobe, with the AGN (active galaxy nucleus) somewhere in the bright white blob in the IR image. If you zoom in on the bright IR blob, in SDSS it looks like this:
It's hard to be sure, but the likely optical source - the 'core' - which contains the AGN is the faint red splotch above the bright star; it's SDSS J164224.34+490934.8, and its redshift is ~0.63, as estimated from its colors (it has no SDSS spectrum).
If so, then the jets stretch, from end-to-end, over a distance greater than the size of our own Milky Way galaxy! Hard to capture that in an artistic representation ...
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cktwigg
Wow thats amazing the distances are mind blowing thanks for your responses I am very chuffed that it is a black hole
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