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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Fri Jan 13, 2012, 09:28 PM Jan 2012

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Hubble Zooms in on Double Nucleus in Andromeda Galaxy

JANUARY 11, 2012: A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, one of the few galaxies outside the Milky Way visible to the naked eye and the only other giant galaxy in the Local Group. This is the sharpest visible-light image ever made of the nucleus of an external galaxy.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/04/

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Hubble Zooms in on Double Nucleus in Andromeda Galaxy (Original Post) n2doc Jan 2012 OP

Holy shit! Deep13 Jan 2012 #1

Deep13

(39,154 posts)

1. Holy shit!

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Sat Jan 14, 2012, 01:26 AM

Jan 2012

I had no idea. There is no hint of that through an amateur scope, even in a big one.

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