A stellar black hole
Combining observations done with ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of jets ever seen from a stellar black hole. The black hole blows a huge bubble of hot gas, 1000 light-years across or twice as large and tens of times more powerful than the other such microquasars. The stellar black hole belongs to a binary system as pictured in this artist’s impression.
Credit:
ESO/L. Calçada/M.Kornmesser
About the Image
| Id: | eso1028a |
| Type: | Artwork |
| Release date: | 7 July 2010, 19:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1028 |
| Size: | 4000 x 3000 px |
About the Object
| Name: | NGC 7793 |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Black Hole • Milky Way : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Quasar • X - Illustrations • X - Quasars & Black Holes |
| Distance: | 12 million light years |
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