Starburst ring of NGC 1097 with magnetic streamlines
Magnetically-Driven Flows in NGC 1097
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Magnetic field streamlines from the Effelsberg radio telescope superposed on an image of the central 1 kpc starburst ring of the spiral galaxy NGC 1097 obtained with the NACO adaptive optics on the VLT. Gas streams follow the magnetic field, feeding the super massive black hole with matter from the galaxy. The image was constructed by stacking J- (blue), H- (green), and Ks-band (red) images.

Credit
NASA, the SOFIA science team, E. Lopez-Rodriguez et al.; ESO/Prieto et al.
Image Number
SCI2022_0004

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