Core of Galaxy NGC 4261- Artist Concept
This is an illustration of how the night sky might look to a dweller in the core of galaxy NGC 4261, which harbors an 800-light-year-wide disk of dust and 1.2 billion-solar-mass black hole.
This imaginary view is from a hypothetical planet inside the dust dusk, looking toward the black hole. The black hole's white-hot glow from super-heated gas is reddened by intervening dust.
Credit:J. Gitlin ( Space Telescope Science Institute)
About the Image
About the Object
Name: | NGC 4261 |
Type: | Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Elliptical Local Universe : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole |
Distance: | 100 million light years |
Category: | Galaxies |