Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton
(NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive
black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A illustrate the combined imaging power of two of astronomy's cutting-edge tools,
the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, and the recently
upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico.