NGC 1068, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, appears in this image released on July 23, 2025. The galaxy contains a black hole at its center that is twice as massive as the Milky Way’s. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory data shows a million-mile-per-hour wind is being driven from NGC 1068’s black hole and lighting up the center of the galaxy in X-rays.
The image contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), radio data from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (pink), and optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (yellow, grey and gold).
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical/IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI (HST and JWST); Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt and N. Wolk
NGC1068是一座相对较近的旋涡星系，在2025年7月23日发布的这张图像中呈现出壮观景象。其中心存在一颗质量是银河系中心黑洞两倍的超大质量黑洞。根据NASA钱德拉X射线天文台的数据，这个黑洞正以每小时百万英里的速度喷出强劲风流，并在X射线波段点亮整个星系核心。
图像结合了多种观测数据：钱德拉的X射线（蓝色）、美国国家科学基金会卡尔·扬斯基甚大阵列的射电数据（粉色），以及哈勃空间望远镜和詹姆斯·韦布空间望远镜的可见光与红外数据（黄色、灰色与金色）。
图像来源: X射线: NASA/CXC/SAO; 可见光/红外光: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI (HST and JWST); 射电: NSF/NRAO/VLA; 图像处理: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt and N. Wolk
