New Hubble photo shows galaxy's bright supermassive black hole cloaked in dust - Space.com

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning new view of a galaxy, which, when viewed from the side, looks like any normal spiral galaxy, but it actually harbors an incredibly bright active galactic nucleus at its core.

NASA's venerable space telescope has captured a stunning new view of a galaxy with an active black hole obscured by tendrils of dark dust. The spiral galaxy , known as NGC 7172, is located about 11… [+1743 chars]

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