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A supermassive black hole powers jets of cosmic rays on either side the elliptical radio galaxy Hercules A.
CREDIT: NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team
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An amazing new radio image of elliptical galaxy Hercules A reveals two gigantic cosmic jets shooting from its center.
The galaxy, also called 3C 348, lies some 2 billion light-years away and is the brightest known radio-emitting object in the constellation Hercules.
In optical images from the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, Hercules A seems to be a quite ordinary galaxy, seen glowing, yellowish in color at the center of this image.
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