It’s an ideal candidate, because it’s a star-forming galaxy with an actively feeding supermassive black hole at the center, and is “Earth-facing.”
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of a nearby galaxy with a little help from a photoprocessor. Inverse writes about it.
A large barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 1365 is 56 million light-years away.
NGC 1365 has two bars, one inside the other, formed in part by stars, gas and dust swirling around the galactic center at different speeds.
They form waves of higher and lower density, which eventually turn into bridges and spirals. The gravity of NGC 1365’s bars may help pull material toward the galaxy’s center, fueling new star formation and feeding the ever-hungry black hole at its center.
An image taken with Webb’s NIRCam instrument shows light from space in the near infrared.
Recall that astronomers received an updated image of the black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87).
A large stream of plasma is directed toward Earth, causing a geomagnetic storm
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