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ABOUT THIS IMAGEESO 243-49 is believed to be home to an intermediate-mass black hole, HLX-1. The edge-on spiral galaxy is 290 million light-years from Earth.

ABOUT THIS IMAGEThe Phoenix galaxy cluster contains the first confirmed supermassive black hole that is unable to prevent large numbers of stars from forming in the core of the galaxy cluster where it resides. The Phoenix Cluster system has several…

ABOUT THIS IMAGEHubble Probes the Black Hole Inside a Majestic Spiral Galaxy The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy NGC 3147 appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space in this Hubble Space Telescope image. They are…