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Winds of Change
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Observation Date: 1 pointing on Dec 4, 2000 and 9 pointings between Nov 18 and Dec 5, 2008. Distance Estimate: About 50 million light years away. This is a composite image of NGC 1068, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies containing a rapidly growing supermassive black hole. The X-ray images and spectra obtained using Chandra's High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer show that a strong wind is being driven away from the center of NGC 1068 at a rate of about a million miles per hour.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineWinds of Change. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002148.
