Alien black hole art

[OwlHoot]

if you squint hard and cock your head to left, then use all of your imagination, it looks like a black hole ejecting matter in the virgo A system

Nah, it's no good. Try as I might, I just can't see it.

All I see is Homer Simpson.

[EternalOptimist]

if you squint hard and cock your head to left, then use all of your imagination, it looks like a black hole ejecting matter in the virgo A system

[TimberWolf]

The photo is upside down. Seen the right way up you can see it's just a disembodied nose belching out a flaming ball of fire.

p.s. is that shaggy inside the orange fireball?

[AtW]

which, if memory serves, is about 60 million light years from our galaxy

So that's like events that took place 60 mln years ago? A lot can happen in this time frame

[d000hg]

Are they the same aliens who make artwork using clouds?

[OwlHoot]

There's an interesting article here on an eruption of matter from round the giant black hole in the Virgo A galaxy which, if memory serves, is about 60 million light years from our galaxy (not that far at galactic scales - about 600 "galactic diameters").

One of the lobes looks just like a slightly stooped figure with a pair of large ears, with two stumpy legs, and holding out its right arm or tentacle. Perhaps advanced aliens have mastered the technique of assembling large amounts of matter and propelling it towards a black hole so the latter ejects it in interesting shapes.

(The black hole itself is as large as our solar system, and if visible in the image below would be smaller than a pin head. So all that stuff round it is hundreds of times larger. Also, black holes don't absorb everything that heads toward them - Due to magnetic fields and high temperatures, a fair proportion is ejected away from it.)