Centaurus A
elliptical galaxy with a swallowed spiral
12 million light-years from Earth
A giant elliptical still digesting a spiral galaxy it swallowed. Its black hole fires jets a million light-years long.
- 12 million light-years · the nearest radio galaxy
- kind
- galaxy
- catalogue
- NGC 5128
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