Chandra Release - July 21, 2010

Visual Description: 4C +00.58

This is an image of a galaxy and its surrounding area that features two sections. To the left is a large field optical image that looks like a sea of faint galaxies and some stars.  To the upper right is a pullout of one galaxy.  The galaxy in the pullout has a round mottled shape in soft gold, with a fat backwards “S” in soft blue over it. This image shows the effects of a giant black hole that has been flipped around twice, causing its spin axis to point in a different direction from before. The large optical image, from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, is centered on a radio galaxy named 4C +00.58. The smaller image to the right shows a close-up view of this galaxy in X-rays (in gold) from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and radio waves (in blue) from the Very Large Array.