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Lone Blazar

This image from NASA WISE spacecraft shows a blazar, a voracious supermassive black hole inside a galaxy with a jet that happens to be pointed right toward Earth. Active black holes are often found at the hearts of elliptical galaxies.

Date
2012-04-12
Photographer / author
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Collection
JPL
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"Lone Blazar" (2012-04-12). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA15424

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