Slender Galaxy with Robust Black Hole
This plot of data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope indicates that a flat, spiral galaxy called NGC 3621 has a feeding, supermassive black hole lurking within it.
- Date
- 2008-01-10
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/George Mason Univ.
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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