Chandra data of the source known as LGGS J004527.30+413254.3
This graphic shows the Chandra data (blue in inset) of the source known as LGGS J004527.30+413254.3 (J0045+41 for short) in the context of optical images of Andromeda from the Hubble Space Telescope. J0045+41 likely contains a pair of supermassive black holes in close orbit around each other, separated by only a few hundred times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. The estimated total mass of the black holes is about two hundred million times the mass of our Sun.
Credit:X-ray: NASA/CXC/University of Washington/T. Dorn-Wallenstein et. al.
Optical: NASA/ESA/J. Dalcanton et. al./R. Gendler.
About the Image
Id: | geminiann17012a |
Type: | Collage |
Release date: | Nov. 29, 2017, 1:40 p.m. |
Related announcements: | geminiann17012 |
Size: | 1581 x 746 px |
About the Object
Category: | Solar System |