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Galaxy M84 Nucleus

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This colorful 'zigzag' is not the work of a flamboyant artist, but the signature of a supermassive black hole in the center of galaxy M84, discovered by Hubble Space Telescope's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS).

Credit: Gary Bower, Richard Green (NOAO), the STIS Instrument Definition Team, and NASA/ESA

 

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Press Release
Id:opo9712c
Object:M 84, NGC 4374, IRAS 12224+1309, Messier 84
Type:Quasar/AGN/Black Hole, Cosmology
Instru-ment:STIS
Width:605
Height:600

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