Messier 59 (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Messier 59

Caption

Researchers studied elliptical galaxies like Messier 59 to determine if the mass of their central black holes changed throughout the past 9 billion years. The smooth distribution of light is billions of stars.

Credit

ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Cote

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License

Public Domain

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