# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-05-06T14:57:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

These violent delights have violet ends 💀💜⁣
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Data from NASAChandraXray and NASAHubble come together in this image to highlight the beautiful but violent events occurring at the center of a violet-colored galaxy 230 million light-years away.⁣
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The telescopes’ team-up reveals the presence of a supermassive black hole and the jets it generates. Gas swirling near the black hole results in bubbles of material blowing into the galaxy cluster, and long gaseous filaments stretch out beyond the galaxy into the X-ray-emitting gas that fills the cluster.⁣
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Composite photos like these provide important clues about how black holes affect their surrounding environment. The X-ray data from Chandra contribute to the soft purple shells around the outside of the center. Dust lanes, star-forming regions, hydrogen filaments, foreground stars, and background galaxies are contributions from the Hubble optical data. Fun fact: those hydrogen filaments are the only visible-light evidence of the relationship between the central black hole and the surrounding gas.⁣
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This galaxy is at the center of the Perseus Cluster, a massive cluster of galaxies immersed in an enormous cloud of gas so hot it only glows in X-rays. The Perseus galaxy cluster is 11 million light-years across and is named for its host constellation.⁣
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Image description: A galaxy with a white center surrounded by pink lobes above and below it. Outside the pink lobes is a violet shell that surrounds the galaxy. From the center of the galaxy are stringy filaments of red gas. Further out, bright stars are sprinkled around the edges of the image.⁣
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Credit: Image: NASA, ESA, and L. Frattare (STScI); Science: X-ray: NASA/CXC/IoA/A.Fabian et al.; Radio: NRAO/VLA/G. Taylor; Optical: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK)⁣
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#NASA #Hubble #Chandra #Telescope #Observatory #BlackHole #Galaxy

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