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 05h 19m 49.7s[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]

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