Pictor A

Pictor A, around 485 million light-years away in the constellation Pictor, is a double-lobed broad-line radio galaxy^[5] and a powerful source of radio waves in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere.^[6] From a supermassive black hole at its centre, a relativistic jet shoots out to an X-ray hot spot 300,000 light-years away.^[7]

Pictor A
Image from Chandra X-ray Observatory showing a jet of plasma emanating from Pictor A
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Pictor
Right ascension	05h 19m 49.721s[1]
Declination	−45° 46′ 43.85″[1]
Redshift	0.03498 ± 0.00005[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	10487 ± 15 km/s
Apparent magnitude (V)	15.77[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)	16.64[3]
Absolute magnitude (V)	19.2[3]
Characteristics
Type	S00[4]
Other designations
Pic A, PKS 0518-45, 2CXO J051949.7-454643