Stunning image shows galactic dance of stars swirling around a supermassive black hole

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Meghan is a senior writer at Space.com and has more than five years' experience as a science journalist based in New York City. She joined Space.com in July 2018, with previous writing published in outlets including Newsweek and Audubon. Meghan earned an MA in science journalism from New York University and a BA in classics from Georgetown University, and in her free time she enjoys reading and visiting museums. Follow her on Twitter at @meghanbartels.

from the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab program, which oversees the observatory. The new image shows a few of those types of celestial phenomena.An image of galaxy NGC 1566, nicknamed the Spanish Dancer, taken by the Dark Energy Camera in Chile.In particular, the photograph shows a dramatic range of star ages.

The bright blue of the Spanish Dancer's arms marks chains of bright young stars, separated by dark lanes of dust. Redder areas closer to the heart of the galaxy are rich in older stars; in 2010, astronomers caught one of the galaxy's aging stars exploding in aInvisible at the galaxy's core is an active supermassive black hole, which shoots out variable amounts of light, though scientists remain puzzled about what precisely is occurring.

 

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