# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BrYj8McnSqP
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11734778-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-12-14T22:02:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

A cosmic fountain is just as cool as it sounds — and stunningly beautiful to match. When vast amounts of gas fall toward a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy cluster, gravitational and electromagnetic forces spray most of the gas away continuously for tens of millions of years. 
Scientists combined data from X-ray, radio, and optical telescopes (including nasachandraxray!) to confirm the first clear evidence for the simultaneous inward and outward flow of gas being driven by a supermassive black hole! 
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/G. Tremblay et al; Radio:ALMA: ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/G.Tremblay et al, NRAO/AUI/NSF/B.Saxton; Optical: ESO/VLT

#NASA #Chandra #Space #Galaxy #SolarSystem #Cosmic #Universe #Astronomy #GalaxyCluster #BlackHole #Astrophysics #CosmicFountain #SupermassiveBlackHole #Telescope #DarkMatter #Beautiful

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universe, cosmic, beautiful, cosmicfountain, astrophysics, chandra, solarsystem, blackhole, telescope, supermassiveblackhole, astronomy, galaxycluster, nasa, darkmatter, space, galaxy

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