Topic: NGC 1097 Galaxy Jets: They Aren't Just For Breakfast Anymore

[sam]

Some 45 million light years away in the direction of the constellation of Fornax, a supermassive black hole is consuming its breakfast… and it doesn't want just toast and tea. It has a hungry belly and the energetic area surrounding the central black hole is super-heated through its interaction with dust, gas, and other matter. Oh, dear. What can that matter be? Try a smaller galaxy that dared to get too close…

http://www.universetoday.com/2010/03/31/ngc-1097-galaxy-jets-they-arent-just-for-breakfast-anymore/

[Simon]

The full image is superbly detailed. 

[Clive]

The writer should be boiled in oil for the silly way in which she has presented this otherwise very interesting article.     But the photo makes it all worthwhile and must surely rank as one of the best I've seen.

[sam]

yes - lots of astronomy writers have weird text.. but the images are cool.

I really wish more professional astronomers would make the effort with things.... I dunno, I just feel that sometimes you need that PhD to properly understand the implications. 

[Clive]

Yes.  These authors treat their readers like children and most people just cringe.