File:Markarian 817 (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope).jpg
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DescriptionMarkarian 817 (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope).jpg |
Rings of brilliant blue stars encircle the bright, active core of this spiral galaxy, whose monster black hole is blasting material into space at over 14 million kilometres per hour. Viewed nearly face-on, the galaxy, called Markarian 817, shows intense star-forming regions and dark bands of interstellar dust along its spiral arms. Observations by the new Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the powerful outflow of material from this galaxy. The COS spectrum of Markarian 817 highlights the outflow's dynamic nature. A gas cloud containing hydrogen that was detected in Hubble data taken in 1997 does not appear in the COS observation because the cloud has apparently been driven out by an outflow of material from the galaxy. This discharge is being powered by a huge disc of matter encircling the supermassive black hole, which is 40 million times more massive than our Sun. The disc is driving the material out of the galaxy through powerful winds, produced by streams of charged particles. Some of the outflow rains back onto the galaxy. The rest settles into the intergalactic gas. Markarian 817 is 430 million light-years away in the northern constellation of Draco. COS observed the galaxy on 4 August 2009, using its far-ultraviolet detector to distinguish the outflow from the galaxy’s core. The Hubble image was taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on 2 August 2009. The composite image was made by using filters that isolate light from the blue, green and infrared portions of the spectrum, as well as emission from glowing hydrogen. |
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Source | http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0910n/ (direct link) | |||
Author | NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team | |||
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