Hubble Telescope Captures Galaxy With Active Black Hole, What Does It Look Like? page all

KOMPAS.com – Space telescope NASA capture a new view of a galaxy with black hole active, covered by tendrils of dark dust.

The spiral galaxy, known as NGC 7172, lies about 110 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.

The picture combines two sets of pictures taken by Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3.

NASA shared this new image on April 1, highlighting tendrils of dark dust crossing the galactic heart. The dark dust obscures the bright central region of the galaxy.

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When viewed from the side, its dusty tendrils make NGC 7172 look like an ordinary spiral galaxy. However, NGC 7172 actually has a very bright active galactic core.

“When astronomers examined NGC 7172 across the electromagnetic spectrum, they quickly discovered that there was more than meets the eye,” NASA officials said. SpaceThursday (7/4/2022).

For information, NGC 7172 is a Seyfert galaxy, a type of galaxy with a very bright active galactic core, powered by matter accreted to a supermassive black hole.

When dust and gas fall into the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, it emits a bright beam of light. F

in fact, galaxies with active galactic nuclei are capable of producing more radiation than all other galaxies.

These new observations were collected as part of a study of the cores of active nearby galaxies.

As for Hubble telescope has been observing the universe since its launch in April 1990.

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NGC 4571

Launching the NASA page, March 25, 2022, the Wide Field Camera 3 of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a view of the spiral galaxy NGC 4571, which is located about 60 million light years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices.

This constellation is named after an Egyptian queen who lived more than 2,200 years ago.

NGC 4571 is part of the Virgo cluster, which contains more than a thousand galaxies. This cluster in turn is part of the larger Virgo supercluster, which also includes the local group containing the Milky Way galaxy.

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