Webb Telescope Reveals Distant Galaxy's Luminous Core Fueled by a Feeding Black Hole
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has released a sharp infrared image of Messier 77, a spiral galaxy 45 million light-years away, exposing its ultra-bright core powered by an actively feeding supermassive black hole (~8 million solar masses). Infrared light penetrates dust, letting Webb reveal how gas and dust are drawn in and heated to extreme temperatures as they spiral toward the event horizon, demonstrating Webb's transformative ability to study active galactic nuclei.
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