Gas escaping along the magnetic field would produce the beams of electrons and gas seen in the jets to make the radio
lobes of radio galaxies.
Abstract: A follow - up X-ray study was made of the west
lobe of the radio galaxy Fornax A, (NGC 1316) based on new ASCA observations made in 1997 for 98 ks, and incorporating the previous observation in 1994 for 39 ks.
Not exact matches
The
radio emission comes from the core AND from very large regions on either side
of the optical part
of the
galaxy called «
radio lobes».
The main science targets specific to these Hubble observations are the host
galaxies of Green Double
Radio -
lobed Active Galactic Nuclei (Green DRAGN — pronounced Green Dragon) and Spiral Double
Radio -
lobed Active Galactic Nuclei (S - DRAGN).
The size
of these
radio lobes dwarfs the large
galaxy.
The «active» part
of the
galaxy is the supermassive black hole in its core, which spews out strong jets
of energetic particles that produce enormous
lobes of radio emission.