NGC 3489 is home to a huge black hole. The luminous center is caused when the black hole devours material that gets too close to it!
This galaxy resides about 30 million light-years away: https://go.nasa.gov/429QWMs
Stay tuned for more new images of AGNs this week!
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Hubble Observes an In-between Galaxy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the lenticular galaxy NGC 3489.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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