More Images of SS 433
1
High Mass X-ray binary System with
Jets
An artist's rendering that shows a binary system
consisting of a massive star and a black hole. Matter
spirals from the massive star toward the black hole,
forming a disk. The matter is heated to temperatures of
million of degrees, and intense electromagnetic forces
in the disk expel jets of high-energy matter. In this
system the jets are slowly wobbling, or precessing,
(represented by blue circular arrow) around a fixed
axis (dotted white line).
(Illustration:
NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)
2
X-ray Image of SS 433
The most recent Chandra image of SS 433 shows two high
speed lobes of 50 million degree gas 5 trillion
kilometers apart on opposite sides of a binary black
hole system.
(Credit:
NASA/CXC/U.Amsterdam/S.Migliari et al.)
3
X-ray/Radio Composite of SS 433
In this X-ray/radio composite image, the radio data
(upper left) were observed by the VLA and Bonn 100m on
August 19, 1996 for about 7 hours (bandwidth = 1465
MHz). The pullout box of the Chandra X-ray data (lower
right) shows two high speed lobes of 50 million degree
gas 5 trillion kilometers apart on opposite sides of a
binary black hole system.
Scale (Radio): 2.5 degrees
Scale (X-ray): 6.5 arcsec
(Credit: X-ray:
NASA/CXC/U.Amsterdam/S.Migliari et al., Radio: G.M.
Dubner, et al.)
4
Chandra X-ray Image with Scale Bar
Scale bar = 1.5 arcsec
(Credit: NASA/CXC/U.Amsterdam/S.Migliari et al.)
Return to SS 433
(11 Dec 02)