Carlos Castaneda

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Gigantic Black Hole Wrecks Havoc for Hundreds of Million Years in the
Perseus Galaxy Cluster - One of the Largest Structures in the Universe


Enormous bright loops, ripples of doomed galaxies, and jet-like streaks are apparent in the central regions of
the Perseus galaxy cluster sown above. The image reveals evidence of the turmoil that has wracked the
cluster for hundreds of millions of years. One of the most massive objects in the universe, the cluster con-
tains thousands of galaxies immersed in a vast cloud of multimillion degree gas with the mass equivalent of
trillions of suns. The dark blue filaments in the center are likely due to a galaxy that has been torn apart and
is falling into NGC 1275, a.k.a. Perseus A, the giant galaxy that lies at the center of the cluster. Special pro-
cessing designed to bring out low and high pressure regions in the hot gas has uncovered huge low pressure
regions (shown in purple in the accompanying image overlay, and outlined with the white contour). These low
pressure regions appear as expanding plumes that extend outward 300,000 light years from the supermassive
black hole in NGC 1275. The hot gas pressure is assumed to be low in the plumes because unseen bubbles of
high-energy particles have displaced the gas. The plumes are due to explosive venting from the vicinity of
the supermassive black hole.
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