Using the brand-new Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT), a giant parabolic dish of 64 meters diameter, a team of astronomers from the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and the University of Cagliari have produced a detailed image of a super-massive black hole proceeding at high speed  towards the core of the distant cluster of galaxies designed as 3C 129. The results are going to be published in the scientific journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 

The black hole sits at the center of an elliptical galaxy some at 300 million light years from Earth. 

These false color images show the cluster of galaxy 3C 129 at radio, X-ray, and near-infrared bands. Left: superposition of the SRT image at 6.6 GHz (red) with the X-ray emission of the hot intracluster medium (blue). Top-right: Very Large Array image at 1.4 GHz. Bottom-right: high-resolution VLA image at 4.7 GHz (red) overlayed to an image of the black hole host galaxy in the near-infrared (Credits: NRAO; ROSAT satellite; the Two Micron All Sky Survey

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