Galaxy with two active massive black holes (IMAGE)
Caption
Long ago, in a galaxy 600 million light years from Earth, a star got too close to a massive black hole and was torn apart. This image combines observations of the tidal disruption event obtained in August 2024 by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The location, pinpointed by Hubble, is the bright blue-white dot of ultraviolet light in the middle of the blue X-ray haze detected by Chandra. The TDE is offset from the center of the galaxy, which appears as a bright orange-white blob at the center of the visible stars, colored orange.
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NASA, ESA, STScI, Yuhan Yao (UC Berkeley); Image Processing by Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
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