Far-Infrared View of Centaurus A from the Herschel Space Observatory (IMAGE)

UK Space Agency

Far-Infrared View of Centaurus A from the Herschel Space Observatory

Caption

The twisted disk of material in the center is clearly visible, the remnants of a galaxy that was swallowed up long ago, and also two clumps of dust in the top left and bottom right corners. The two plumes are the glow from material spewing out from the black hole in the center of the galaxy.

Credit

Far-infrared: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/C.D. Wilson, MacMaster University, Canada; X-ray: ESA/XMM-Newton/EPIC

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