File:MCG-03-34-064 Compass Image (2024-022).jpg

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Image titled "MCG-03-34-064, HST ACS" with color key, scale bar, and compass arrows. A Hubble Space Telescope visible-light image of the galaxy MCG-03-34-064.

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English: Image titled "MCG-03-34-064, HST ACS" with color key, scale bar, and compass arrows. A Hubble Space Telescope visible-light image of the galaxy MCG-03-34-064. Hubble's sharp view reveals three distinct bright spots embedded in a white ellipse at the galaxy's center (expanded in an inset image at upper right). Two of these bright spots are the source of strong X-ray emission, a telltale sign that they are supermassive black holes. The black holes shine brightly because they are converting infalling matter into energy, and blaze across space as active galactic nuclei. Their separation is about 300 light-years. The third spot is a blob of bright gas. The blue streak pointing to the 5 o'clock position may be a jet fired from one of the black holes. The black hole pair is a result of a merger between two galaxies that will eventually collide.

NASA, ESA, Anna Trindade Falcão (CfA)

Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
Date 9 September 2024 (upload date)
Source MCG-03-34-064 Compass Image
Author Image: NASA, ESA, Anna Trindade Falcão (CfA) Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
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Black Holes; Active Galaxies/Quasars

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