Discovery of a Dying Supermassive Black Hole Via a 3,000-year-long Light Echo (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

Tohoku University

Discovery of a Dying Supermassive Black Hole Via a 3,000-year-long Light Echo (1 of 3)

Caption

The radio band composite image of Arp 187 obtained by VLA and ALMA telescopes (blue: VLA 4.86 GHz, green: VLA 8.44 GHz, red: ALMA 133 GHz). The image shows clear bimodal jet lobes, but the central nucleus (center of the image) is dark/non-detection.

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ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Ichikawa et al.

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ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Ichikawa et al.

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