Black-Hole-Powered Jets Forge Fuel for Star Formation
Composite image showing how powerful radio jets from the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy in the Phoenix Cluster inflated huge “bubbles” in the hot, ionized gas surrounding the galaxy (the cavities inside the blue region imaged by NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory). Hugging the outside of these bubbles, ALMA discovered an unexpected trove of cold gas, the fuel for star formation (red). The background image is from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); H.Russell, et al.; NASA/ESA Hubble; NASA/CXC/MIT/M.McDonald et al.; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
| Technical Details | |
|---|---|
| Telescope | ALMA; ALMA; HST; HST; HST; Chandra |
| Band | CO(3-2); CO(3-2); I; R; V; X-ray |
| Date | 2014-06-15T09:17:39.696000; 2014-06-15T09:17:39.696000; -; -; -; - |
| Center | RA: 23:44:43.78, Dec: -42:43:14.41 |
| Field of View | 0.18 x 0.18 arcminutes |
