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www.chandra.si.edu Instagram.comHappy #4thofJuly! Awe-inspiring #fireworks are happening on a galactic scale in M106. Jets from a supermassive black hole are generating powerful shock waves. The shock waves are then heating gas, enough gas to make up about 10 million Suns, to thousands of degrees in a spectacular display!
X-ray (Chandra): NASA, CXC, Caltech/P.Ogle et al.;
Optical: NASA, STScI & R.Gendler;
Infrared (Spitzer): NASA, JPL-Caltech;
Radio (Very Large Array): NSF, NRAO
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