HUBBLE ATLAS

Illustrations

Top-Down View of Artist’s Impression of NGC3147 black hole disc

July 11, 2019 · ESA/Hubble

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Top-down view of an 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.