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This Galaxy Screams Across The Void

The galaxy NGC 1275 has long commanded attention because it emits such strong radio waves and X-rays. And new images of the galaxy, at the heart of the Perseus cluster, paint a super-violent picture of events at its heart, thanks to the black hole at its exact center. This image combines optical imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green and blue) with X-ray data (soft violet) and radio waves (red). Click through to see X-ray and radio images separately.

X-ray images:

Radio waves:

[Chandra Observatory]

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