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Cen A in the media :

A composite image showing the size of the radio glow from the galaxy Centaurus A in comparison to the full Moon and the ATCA antennas in the foreground.

Credit: Ilana Feain et al.; CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility

The secret inside Centaurus A

Credit: ESO, Y. Beletsky, Digitized Sky Survey 2, and A. Fujii

Watching a Cannibal Galaxy Dine
(ESO Photo Release 44/09 (2009-11-20))

Most recent publications found :

A Transient Sub-Eddington Black Hole X-ray Binary Candidate in the Dust Lanes of Centaurus A
Burke, Mark J.; Raychaudhury, Somak; Kraft, Ralph P.; Brassington, Nicola J.; Hardcastle, Martin J.; Goodger, Joanna L.; Sivakoff, Gregory R.; Forman, William R.; Jones, Christine; Woodley, Kristin A.; Murray, Stephen S.; Kainulainen, Jouni; Birkinshaw, Mark; Croston, Judith H.; Evans, Daniel A.; Gilfanov, Marat; Jordan, Andres; Sarazin, Craig L.; Voss, Rasmus; Worrall, Diana M.; Zhang, Zhongli
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 749, Issue 2, article id. 112 (2012).
--> comment: mentiones CXOU J132519.9-43031 (= 1RXH J132519.8-430312 = hcs113), but gives only Kraft et al. 2001 as reference;

10 pc Scale Circumnuclear Molecular Gas Imaging of Nearby AGNs
Matsushita, Satoki
arXiv:1205.0399v1 [astro-ph.CO]

Astronomy Picture of the Day (2012-04-04): Centaurus A
(optical; the image is flipped horizontaly and South is up)