Pictor A

Pictor A

image from Chandra X-ray Observatory showing a jet of plasma emanating from Pictor A
Observation data Epoch J2000
Constellation	Pictor
Right ascension	05^h 19^m 49.7^s[1]
Declination	−45° 46′ 44″[1]
Apparent dimension (V)	{{{appdim_v}}}

Pictor A, around 485 million light-years away in the constellation Pictor, is a double-lobed radio galaxy^[1] and a powerful source of radio waves in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere.^[2] From a supermassive black hole at its centre, a relativistic jet shoots out to an X-ray hot spot 800,000 light years away.^[3]

References

Citations

1. NED Pictor A.
2. Perley et al. 1997.
3. ChandraPR.

Sources

• "Spectacular X-ray Jet Points Toward Cosmic Energy Booster". Exploring the Universe. Chandra X-ray Observatory. 6 June 2000. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
• "Pictor A". NASA/ipac Extragalactic Database. NASA/jpl/Caltech/ipac. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
• Perley, Richard A.; Röser, , Hermann-Josef; Meisenheimer, Klaus (1997). "The Radio Galaxy Pictor A – a Study with the VLA" (PDF). Astronomy & Astrophysics. 328: 12–32. Bibcode:1997A&A...328...12P.