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English: The Infinity Galaxy, the result of two colliding spiral galaxies, is composed of two rings of stars (seen as ovals at upper right and lower left). The two nuclei of the spiral galaxies are seen represented in yellow within the rings. Glowing hydrogen that has been stripped of its electrons between the two galaxies appears green. Astronomers have detected a million-solar-mass black hole that seems to be embedded within this large swath of ionized gas. They suggest that the black hole might have formed there through a process known as direct collapse. This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) represents light at 0.9 microns as blue (F090W), 1.15 and 1.5 microns as green (F115W+F150W), and 2.0 microns as red (F200W).
Read the story. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) |
| Date | 15 July 2025 (upload date) |
| Source | Infinity Galaxy (NIRCam) |
| Author | Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) |
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| Keyword | Interacting Galaxies |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA, ESA and CSA. NASA Webb material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA/CSA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if source material from other organizations is in use. The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-03127. Copyright statement at webbtelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the esawebb.org site, use the {{ESA-Webb}} tag. |
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