SKIRMISHER

Please excuse us if somehow our headline neatly betrays that we’re still not yet over with this Borat character and his constellation of lovable but unwitting supporting cast, which most of the world is now sick of, but as breathless as this Universe Today write-up is our realization that blackholes can actually look like rainbow fartsy things given with the right set of x-ray telescope.

Each of the multicoloured dots in this photograph is a black hole. The panorama was created using images taken by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and several ground-based telescopes. The scale image of the moon should give you an idea of how large a portion of the sky was imaged.

Each one of black holes in the picture is really the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of another galaxy. Although the singularity itself is black, material chokes up around it, releasing the radiation we see. Astronomers call these active galactic nuclei, or AGNs.

Stumble it!