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The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole
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The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole

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The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole

By Overlook Horizon|2024-05-09T09:09:42-04:00May 9th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: Famous, Galaxy, nasa, Photo, photo of the day, picture|

Photo of the Day Bright elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is home to the supermassive black hole captured in 2017 by planet Earth's Event Horizon Telescope in the first ever image of a black hole. Giant of the Virgo galaxy cluster about 55 million light-years away, M87 is rendered in blue hues in this [...]

The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb
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The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb

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The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb

By Overlook Horizon|2024-04-15T09:09:06-04:00April 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: Cigar, Galaxy, nasa, Photo, photo of the day, picture|

Photo of the Day Something strange happened to this galaxy, but what? Known as the Cigar Galaxy and cataloged as M82, red glowing gas and dust are being cast out from the center. Although this starburst galaxy was surely stirred up by a recent pass near its neighbor, large spiral galaxy M81, this doesn't [...]