Core of Galaxy NGC 4261
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of an 800-light-year-wide spiral-shaped disk of dust fueling a massive black hole in the centreof galaxy, NGC 4261, located 100 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Virgo.
Credit:
About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo9547a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 4 December 1995, 12:30 |
| Size: | 386 x 360 px |
About the Object
| Name: | NGC 4261 |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Elliptical • Local Universe : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole |
| Distance: | 100 million light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical V |
547 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Optical R |
675 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Infrared I |
791 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
