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NGC 3627: Revealing Hidden Black Holes
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NGC 3627: Revealing Hidden Black Holes

The spiral galaxy NGC 3627, located about 30 million light years from Earth as seen by four NASA telescopes; inset shows the central region, which contains a bright X-ray source that is likely powered by material falling onto a supermassive black hole.

Date
2012-12-13
Photographer / author
NASA/CXC/Ohio State Univ./C.Grier et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI, ESO/WFI; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Collection
JPL
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"NGC 3627: Revealing Hidden Black Holes" (2012-12-13). NASA/JPL/NASA/CXC/Ohio State Univ./C.Grier et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI, ESO/WFI; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA15806

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