SpazeElliptical galaxy with a dust lane
Centaurus A
The wreck of a collision between an elliptical and a spiral galaxy. Jets from its central black hole stretch a million light years.
- Distance
- 12 million light years
- Width
- 60,000 light years
- Jets
- ~1 million light years
Made of
- Dark matter 90%
- Stars 9%
- Gas and dust 1%
Hundreds of billions of stars in a halo of dark matter
Modelled from rotation curves and star counts