3C353: Giant plumes of radiation

Jets generated by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies can transport huge amounts of energy across great distances.

3C353 [Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Tokyo Institute of
Technology/J.Kataoka et al, Radio: NRAO/VLA]

3C353 is a wide, double-lobed source where the galaxy is the tiny point in the center and giant plumes of radiation can be seen in X-rays from Chandra (purple) and radio data from the Very Large Array (orange).

Source: NASA [November 04, 2013]