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
NASA press release
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| Id: | opo9547b |
| Type: | Artwork |
| Release date: | 4 December 1995, 12:30 |
| Size: | 3000 x 2400 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 |
