Hubble Views a Galaxy with a Voracious Black Hole (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Views a Galaxy with a Voracious Black Hole

Caption

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4951, located roughly 50 million light-years away from Earth.

Credit

NASA, ESA, and D. Thilker (The Johns Hopkins University); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

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License

Public Domain

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