A recent photo of the colossal Centaurus A galaxy ... of the gas in the galaxy causes slight changes to this wavelength, which can be seen in the slight changes of color in the image.

Centaurus A, seen below, is an example of a giant elliptical galaxy with two prominent radio lobes. To understand why having two pairs of lobes is unusual, we first need to understand what creates the ...

Centaurus A is a giant elliptical active galaxy 12 million light-years away. At its heart lies a black hole with a mass of 55 million suns. This image shows the galaxy at radio wavelengths ...

In this space wallpaper, the peculiar galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is pictured in this image taken with by the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla ...

Centaurus A (Cen A), located some 12 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus the Centaur, is the fifth-brightest galaxy in the night sky and hosts an exceptionally powerful ...

At a distance of around 12 million light years, Centaurus A is the closest large elliptical galaxy to our own Milky Way. It has been marked as unusual since shortly after its discovery in the 19th ...

The sharpness helped researchers compare jets from Centaurus A's black hole — which is 55 million times more massive than our sun — to those escaping from the Messier 87 galaxy, about 54 ...

A breakthrough discovery has recently rocked the world of astronomy: a jet of matter ejected from a massive black hole in the galaxy Centaurus A has hit an unknown object., creating a unique ...

Centaurus A is one of the brightest galaxies in the sky and is known for the huge jets expelled by its central black hole. “They extend to pretty much the entire scale of the galaxy,” says ...