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Visible-Light Image of Galaxy Cluster MS 0735 (MS 0735.6+7421, Galaxy Cluster MS 0735) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

Black holes

Visible-Light Image of Galaxy Cluster MS 0735

November 2, 2006 · NASA · MS 0735.6+7421, Galaxy Cluster MS 0735 · Camelopardalis

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This image of galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421 was taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in February 2006. The Advanced Camera for Surveys image shows dozens of galaxies bound together by gravity. Diffuse, hot gas with a temperature of nearly 50 million degrees permeates the space between the galaxies. A supermassive black hole weighing nearly a billion times the mass of our Sun lurks in the nucleus of the bright central galaxy.

About the colours

Yellow-green (HST): visible

About the data

This image was created from HST data from the following proposal 10495 : B. McNamara (Ohio University), M. Wise (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and P. Nulsen (Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory).

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