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Chapter 16, Figure 26
Figure
16.26
Picture made
with the Hubble Space Telescope of an accretion disk in the center of the
radio galaxy NGC 4261. (Courtesy W. Jaffe, Leiden Observatory and H. Ford,
Johns Hopkins University, Space Telescope Science Institute; and NASA.) The
inset on the bottom shows a wider field view of this galaxy's central region
and shows the jets of hot gas being ejected from the central regions of the
disk. (Courtesy NRAO and Caltech.)
