The Sky Region around Galaxy NGC 7727 | ESO
This image from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) shows the region of the sky around NGC 7727, a galaxy located 89 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. The galaxy is the bright spot in the center.
NGC 7727 is home to the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth found to date. It is also the pair with the smallest separation between two supermassive black holes—observed to be just 1,600 light-years apart in the sky.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2
Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
Release Date: November 30, 2021
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