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Artist's impression of NGC3147 black hole disc


Date: 11 July 2019
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: NGC3147 black hole disc
Copyright: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0

Artist's impression of the peculiar thin disc of material circling a supermassive black hole at the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away.

 
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Last Update: 1 September 2019
21-Jan-2026 19:54 UT

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