Pictor A
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
05h19m 49.721s[1]
−45° 46′ 43.85″[1]
0.03498 ± 0.00005[2]
10487 ± 15 km/s
15.77[3]
16.64[3]
19.2[3]
Characteristics
S00[4]
Other designations
Pic A, PKS 0518-45, 2CXO J051949.7-454643
Pictor A, around 485 million light-years away in the constellation Pictor, is a double-lobed broad-line radio galaxy[5] and a powerful source of radio waves in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere.[6] From a supermassive black hole at its centre, a relativistic jet shoots out to an X-ray hot spot 300,000 light-years away.[7]
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