Hubble sees a supermassive and super-hungry galaxy

Monday, January 11, 2016 - 07:31 in Astronomy & Space

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located over 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). The galaxy's orientation clearly reveals the galaxy's striking spiral structure: a flat and dust-mottled disk surrounding a bright galactic bulge.

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