Immense Magnetic Tentacles

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Thu Aug 21, 2008 at 12:57 pm PDT • Views: 290

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)

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