Supermassive Black Hole within M60-UCD1 (IMAGE)

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Supermassive Black Hole within M60-UCD1

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This is an illustration of the supermassive black hole located in the middle of the very dense galaxy M60-UCD1. It weighs as much as 21 million times the mass of our Sun.

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NASA, ESA, D. Coe, G. Bacon (STScI)

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