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"While high-velocity winds have previously been observed in quasars, these have been thin and wispy, carrying only a relatively small amount of mass," Sarah Gallagher, an astronomer at Western University in Canada and lead author on the new research, said in a university statement. "The outflow...

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Progressive display of the composition. first image is the HST optical shot with the background stellar gradient removed. (Displayed as a green channel). 2nd image is a composition of the optical and radio images. I'm pretty sure i'd made a version like this which had helped me form the...

The (RGB) image is composed of: Red = Radio (Very Large Array) Green = Optical (Hubble Space Telescope) ie: visible light Blue = X-Ray (Chandra Space Telescope) Of the 3, the HST Optical image is the highest resolution. The VLA Radio image has the next highest resolution, but the...

The correlation of the blue x-ray 'Blob' produced by the jet, with 'Globular Clusters', is partway based on the relative sizes involved. nb: "Ultra Compact Dwarf" refers to the globular clusters in M87 Omega Centauri is the largest GC in our Galaxy. The Blob is the right size (to evolve into...

It's news to me, i think of the jet as spitting out 'quantas' of mass/energy that are "regular sized" according to the host Galaxy. (The jet being sized according to the Galaxy too). I look at the number of Globular Clusters and conjecture that the process has been going on for a long time...

Not to my knowledge. It may require (like my example) a multi-wavelength approach to find and or confirm similar objects. I think my picture is the first one to clearly show that there is a product being formed by a jet.

oh...thank you for the thumbs up 'like'. i understand now...sorry about that.

The actual formation of the Globular Cluster as a spherical Blob occurs in a bizarre way. I've made an attempt at theorizing how it happens but of course i could be wrong. click on the 2nd image to enlarge. Because of the concepts involved ie: "Plasma Physics of a Relativistic Jet" i...

I did? There are 2 streams of plasma which merge to form a condensed blob. whether that plasma material is hydrogen or some other type, i don't know. I don't believe the process takes the form of the "jet compressing large amounts of gas in front of it, thereby creating a large ball of...

about the Hubble Space Telescope Optical image. very little of the jet is visible in the optical portion of the light spectrum. particularly along the main body of the jet before it hits the bright spot. what we see appears as indications of turbulence, and which i think is the contact and...

the jet appears to be formed by 2 streams of plasma (emanating from the proximity of the black hole at left and emitting x-ray and radio light respectively*) ... which then merge (plasma fusion?) at the bright spot to form a condensed blob of high energy plasma (emitting light in the x-ray...

back in 2001 i made a multi-wavelength composite image of the jet of M87. and discovered what i believe to be the creation of a new Globular Cluster by the jet. see my cheap website for a rough description of the theory. it goes a little bit kooky with the concept of a 'plasma helix', but...