Chandra X-Ray Observatory             

                                                                                                                    Fingers, Loops and Bays in the Crab Nebula
                                                                                                                                                  11.05.08
 

Text Box: NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has pinpointed superheated bubbles within M84, a massive elliptical galaxy in the Virgo Cluster. Located about 55 million light years from Earth, M84 contains a central, super massive black hole that spews a two-sided jet of particles to heat surrounding gas. Inside the gas are nested bubbles that appear much like Russian stacking dolls, or matryoshkas – sets of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other. Supercomputer simulations suggest that these “dolls” aren’t created by toymakers, but by the interaction of the black hole’s jet and the surrounding gas. A

                                                                     View of the faint boundary of the Crab Nebula's X-ray-emitting pulsar wind nebula

 

 

                Chandra X-Ray Observatory

                                      

                                               Cat's Eye Nebula                                                                           supernova remnant

        SN 1006                                                        SN 1006

            

Discovery of Most Recent Supernova in Our Galaxy                     Jet Power and Black Hole


                

 

                G1.9+0.3                                                                            Centaurus A