Dusty Filaments in Galaxy NGC 4696 | Hubble
This picture, taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), shows NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster.
This image shows the dusty filaments surrounding the center of this huge galaxy in great detail. These filaments loop and curl inwards in an intriguing spiral shape, swirling around the supermassive black hole at such a distance that they are dragged into and eventually consumed by the black hole itself.
Distance: about 150 million light years
Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, A. Fabian
Release Date: December 1, 2016
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