View Images Library Photos and Pictures. "Will the real monster black hole please stand up?" This image from NASA's NuSTAR reveals that in the colliding galaxy pair Arp 299, only one of the galaxies' supermassive black holes is actively "feeding" on gas. In the center panel, the NuSTAR high-energy X-ray data appear in various colors overlaid on a visible-light image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The panel on the left shows the NuSTAR data alone, while the visible-light image is on the far right. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC A pair of black holes, marked in magenta, whirl their way around a nearby galaxy in this look across the cosmos released on January 21 by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array. At the center of the galaxy lies a "supermassive" black hole that's millions of times more massive than the sun. Most galaxies have such monsters at their hearts, including our own Milky Way, but not many boast a nicer "ul...
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