Immense Magnetic Tentacles

Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:57:07 pm PST

Revealed in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope: gigantic gaseous filaments up to 20,000 light years long, shaped by the magnetic field of a super-massive black hole in the galaxy NGC 1275.

_{Image credit: NASA, ESA, and A.C. Fabian (University of Cambridge, UK)}