Astronomers have captured a breathtaking radio wave image, showing our closest radio active black hole spewing out massive jets of plasma that span more than 16 times the size of the full moon in our sky.
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When viewed from Earth, like it is in this photo, the plasma erupting from Centaurus A's black hole extends eight degrees across the sky, or the length of 16 full moons laid next to each other. They're visible in this picture after radio wave emissions were captured by the Murchison Widefield Array telescope, located in an isolated part of Western Australia, away from other radio interference. It's the first time we've been able to see it in such detail.
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