It's called a quasar, It's basically a giant jet of particles that have been shot out from a supermassive black hole. The jet stretches across more than 100,000 light-years of space, which is a size comparable to our own Milky Way galaxy, which is huge. A quasar is made up of mini type galaxies that have been heated up and dragged out of black holes and are diminished as X-ray energy wavelengths. The image is composed of both visible and infrared light captured by NASA's hubble, chandra and Spitzer space telescopes in the 60s. As It move from left to right, the light diminishes in energy, and wavelengths increase in size, Blue light being the highest wavelength. I posted this here because i thinks it's ironic that a black hole can spit out so many wavelengths of color, it's pretty trippy.
Doesn't every single star emit the full range of visible light too? And I don't understand the Irony behind it. Is it like rain on your wedding day?
In a way yes, but this is on a much larger scale. The fact that it came from a black hole. Thanks for the replies, keep em coming blades.
Stephen Hawking's book does well to explain alot of this. dispells the myth that "nothing can escape a black hole". stuff does all the time.